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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is described in Section 8 as sprawled “on the bloody floor of the bedroom”?
(a) “The suicide.”
(b) “The model.”
(c) “A murder victim.”
(d) “A handkerchief.”

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

3. As the narrator watches “the little one” sleeping in Section 8, he silently brushes away what with his hand?
(a) Moths.
(b) Bats.
(c) Flies.
(d) Mosquitoes.

4. The narrator claims to “lean and loafe at my ease observing” what, in Section 1?
(a) “A spear of summer grass.”
(b) “A blooming spring flower.”
(c) “A falling autumn leaf.”
(d) “The falling flakes of snow.”

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

6. What is being carried in loads on the “slow-drawn wagon” in Section 9?
(a) Dried grass.
(b) Rice.
(c) Corn.
(d) Garlic.

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

8. The narrator claims to wear what as he pleases “indoors or out” in Section 20?
(a) His pistol.
(b) His pants.
(c) His boots.
(d) His hat.

9. Whitman writes in Section 1 of the poem that every what “belonging to me as good belongs to you”?
(a) “Religion.”
(b) “Bible.”
(c) “Atom.”
(d) “Element.”

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) Pismire.
(b) Contralto.
(c) Tenor.
(d) Cello.

11. From where does the narrator describe following the movements of the men with sledges and hammers in the end of Section 12?
(a) “The freeway terminal.”
(b) “The cinder-strew’d threshold.”
(c) “The wrecking yard.”
(d) “The mountain-cliff dwelling.”

12. What adjective does the narrator use in describing the summer morning in Section 5?
(a)
(b) “Boiling.”
(c) “Transparent.”
(d) “Retrograde.”

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator claims in Section 15, “The married and unmarried children ride home to their” what?

2. To what does the narrator say “the other I am not must not abase itself to you” in Section 5?

3. The narrator combines the word “respiration” with what word in Section 2?

4. How does the poet describe the summer night in Section 21?

5. What “impassive” objects “receive and return so many echoes,” according to the narrator in Section 8?

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