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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The narrator says in Section 13 to not call what creature “unworthy because she is not something else”?
(a) The tortoise.
(b) The eagle.
(c) The snake.
(d) The crow.

3. How is the girl described that accompanies the youngster “up the bushy hill” in Section 8?
(a) “Red-eyed.”
(b) “Red-faced.”
(c) “Red-skinned.”
(d) “Red-headed.”

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

5. How many suns does the narrator claim there are left in Section 2?
(a) But a few.
(b) Dozens.
(c) Millions.
(d) A handful.

6. To what does the narrator say “the other I am not must not abase itself to you” in Section 5?
(a) “My youth.”
(b) “My intestines.”
(c) “My soul.”
(d) “My scalp.”

7. What color, in addition to green, is considered the “tufted crown intentional” by the narrator in Section 13?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Violet.
(c) Red.
(d) Orange.

8. The narrator combines the word “respiration” with what word in Section 2?
(a) “Resignation.”
(b) “Inspiration.”
(c) “Retaliation.”
(d) “Desperation.”

9. The narrator describes “the little one” as sleeping where in the opening of Section 8?
(a) “The bed.”
(b) “Its cradle.”
(c) “The bathtub.”
(d) “A basket.”

10. What word used in the opening of Section 15 refers to the lowest female voice or voice part, intermediate between soprano and tenor?
(a) Tenor.
(b) Cello.
(c) Contralto.
(d) Pismire.

11. What does the butcher-boy put off, according to the narrator in Section 12?
(a) “His killing-clothes.”
(b) “His resting clothes.”
(c) “His working clothes.”
(d) “His church clothes.”

12. What character is “sold at the auction-stand” in Section 15?
(a) The Polish boy.
(b) The Asian girl.
(c) The quadroon girl.
(d) The Mexican girl.

13. The narrator asserts in Section 18 that “battles are lost in the same spirit in which” what?
(a) “They are won.”
(b) “They unfold.”
(c) “They are fought.”
(d) “They are planned.”

14. The narrator says in Section 24, “I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of” what?
(a) “Democracy.”
(b) “Socialism.”
(c) “Illuminati.”
(d) “Monarchy.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is being carried in loads on the “slow-drawn wagon” in Section 9?

2. What question does the narrator say a child asked in Section 6?

3. How many “young men bathe by the shore,” according to the narrator in Section 11?

4. The narrator says in Section 10 that while he wanders “alone in the wilds and mountains” he is amazed at his own what?

5. The narrator states in Section 7, “Undrape! You are not guilty to me, nor stale nor” what?

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