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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how long does the narrator say the runaway slave stayed with him in Section 10?
(a) A day.
(b) A year.
(c) A month.
(d) A week.

2. Who “sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron” in Section 15?
(a) The Badger.
(b) The Beaver.
(c) The Wolf.
(d) The Wolverine.

3. The narrator claims in Section 2 that the atmosphere “has no taste of” what?
(a) “The reconciliation.”
(b) “The distillation.”
(c) “The emancipation.”
(d) “The concentration.”

4. In the opening of Section 20, the narrator says, “Who goes there? Hankering, gross, mystical” and what?
(a) “Wild.”
(b) “Pure.”
(c) “Forbidden.”
(d) “Nude.”

5. The narrator claims in Section 5, “I know that the hand of God is the promise of” what?
(a) “My own.”
(b) “Others.”
(c) “Salvation.”
(d) “Good fortune.”

6. Where does the narrator say the “sharp-hoof’d moose” comes from in Section 14?
(a) The north.
(b) The east.
(c) The south.
(d) The west.

7. What instruments does the narrator describe playing in the opening of Section 18?
(a) Cornets and drums.
(b) Drums and piano.
(c) Flutes and whistles.
(d) Tubas and bass.

8. Which word from Section 12 means “limber” or “flexible”?
(a) Rigid.
(b) Articulate.
(c) Lithe.
(d) Contralto.

9. What does the narrator say he does “alone far in the wilds and mountains” in Section 10?
(a) Prays.
(b) Ponders.
(c) Fishes.
(d) Hunts.

10. How does the poet describe the summer night in Section 21?
(a) “Pulsing gray summer night.”
(b) “Hot sweaty summer night.”
(c) “Mad naked summer night.”
(d) “Rich with water summer night.”

11. Who does the narrator ask in Section 13, “What is it that you express in your eyes?”
(a) The horses.
(b) The oxen.
(c) The goats.
(d) The cows.

12. To what does the narrator say “I resign myself to you also” in the beginning of Section 21?
(a) “You forest!”
(b) “You canyon!”
(c) “You desert!”
(d) “You sea!”

13. The narrator says in Section 14, “The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred” what?
(a) “Thoughts.”
(b) “Prayers.”
(c) “Recollections.”
(d) “Affections.”

14. What question does the narrator say a child asked in Section 6?
(a) “Who are the birds?”
(b) “When will summer come?”
(c) “Where are the turtles?”
(d) “What is the grass?”

15. The narrator asserts in Section 20, “I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by” what?
(a) “A carpenter’s compass.”
(b) “The winds of time.”
(c) “A witch’s broom.”
(d) “The moon’s rays.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator asserts in Section 18 that “battles are lost in the same spirit in which” what?

2. What is described in Section 8 as sprawled “on the bloody floor of the bedroom”?

3. In describing his body in Section 3, the narrator claims, “Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is” what?

4. What does the narrator say that seeing “at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books” in Section 24?

5. The “lunatic” described in Section 15 “will never sleep any more as he did in the cot” where?

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