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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The poet claims in Section 24, “Copulation is no more rank to me than” what is?
(a) “Death.”
(b) “Injury.”
(c) “Thought.”
(d) “Birth.”

4. The poet claims in Section 21 that “it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,” and that “there is nothing greater than” what?
(a) “The mother of men.”
(b) “The owner of the animals.”
(c) “The cousin of the animals.”
(d) “The father of children.”

5. What “impassive” objects “receive and return so many echoes,” according to the narrator in Section 8?
(a) “Stones.”
(b) “Trees.”
(c) “Swamps.”
(d) “Clouds.”

6. Section 17 ends with the line, “This is the common air that bathes” what?
(a) “The globe.”
(b) “The county.”
(c) “The country.”
(d) “The body.”

7. The narrator says that he sees “the elementary laws never” do what, in Section 20?
(a) “Apologize.”
(b) “Convict.”
(c) “Improve.”
(d) “Conclude.”

8. The narrator claims in Section 20, “I laugh at what you call” what?
(a) “Progress.”
(b) “Dissolution.”
(c) “Sacred.”
(d) “Wealth.”

9. The narrator claims “I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or” what, in Section 20?
(a) “Look to the stars.”
(b) “Be understood.”
(c) “To confuse.”
(d) “Be admonished.”

10. The narrator exclaims in Section 18, “Vivas to those who have” what?
(a) “Fail’d!”
(b) “Love’d!.”
(c) “Succeed’d!”
(d) “Wonder’d!”

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

12. The narrator states in Section 3, “I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the” what?
(a) “Beginning and the end.”
(b) “Good and evil.”
(c) “Rich and the poor.”
(d) “Chicken and the egg.”

13. How old does the narrator of the poem claim to be in Section 1?
(a) 44.
(b) 37.
(c) 34.
(d) 29.

14. What kind of boat is described “under her sky-sails” in Section 10?
(a) A Confederate frigate.
(b) A schooner.
(c) A destroyer.
(d) A Yankee clipper.

15. How many horses is “the negro” driving in Section 13?
(a) 4.
(b) 8.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator asserts in Section 21, “I am not the poet of goodness only, I do not decline to be the poet of” what also?

2. The narrator claims to wear what as he pleases “indoors or out” in Section 20?

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

4. Who does the “red girl” marry in Section 10?

5. The narrator of the poem claims in Section 1 that “what I assume you shall” what?

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