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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. “Behavior” is described as “lawless” as what in Section 39?
(a) “Falling leaves.”
(b) “Rapid rivers.”
(c) “Raindrops.”
(d) “Snow-flakes.”

2. What “is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels,” in Section 31?
(a) “A hummingbird.”
(b) “A mouse.”
(c) “A butterfly.”
(d) “A penguin.”

3. The poet proclaims in Section 42, “This is the city and I am one of the” what?
(a) “Citizens.”
(b) “Caretakers.”
(c) “Leaders.”
(d) “Children.”

4. The narrator says in Section 34 that he will now tell what he knew in what location in early youth?
(a) Nevada.
(b) Texas.
(c) Montana.
(d) Colorado.

5. Of animals, the poet says in Section 32, “Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of” what?
(a) “Religious boundaries.”
(b) “Earning a wage.”
(c) “Loving peace.”
(d) “Owning things.”

6. The narrator tells “the tale of the murder in cold blood of” how many young men in Section 34?
(a) 277.
(b) 363.
(c) 194.
(d) 412.

7. What animal is “searching for roots or honey” in Section 33?
(a) The badger.
(b) The porcupine.
(c) The black bear.
(d) The wolf.

8. By whom does the narrator say he has been “given up” in Section 28?
(a) “God.”
(b) “Priests.”
(c) “Traitors.”
(d) “Pillagers.”

9. Of whom does the narrator say he “is closest to me, he knows me well” in Section 47?
(a) “The wolf father.”
(b) “The old priest.”
(c) “The red-skinned trapper.”
(d) “The young mechanic.”

10. The poet announces in Section 40, “To any one dying, thither I speed and twist” what?
(a) “The knife in the wound.”
(b) “The hand of the attic.”
(c) “The knob of the door.”
(d) “The sword in the cloud.”

11. To whom does the poet say “I might tell how I like you, but cannot” in Section 40?
(a) “Man or woman.”
(b) “Human or spirit.”
(c) “Child or adult.”
(d) “Dog or cat.”

12. The poet claims in Section 47, “I swear I will never again mention” what “inside a house”?
(a) “Love or death.”
(b) “News or gossip.”
(c) “Fact or fiction.”
(d) “Religion or politics.”

13. What creature “suns his flabby length on a rock” in Section 33?
(a) The alligator.
(b) The seal.
(c) The rattlesnake.
(d) The bear.

14. What “send their old heat against my approach,” according to the poet in Section 31?
(a) “The willowy trees.”
(b) “The grains of sand.”
(c) “The vacant air.”
(d) “The plutonic rocks.”

15. The narrator describes the judge in Section 26 as “with hands tight to the desk, his pallid lips pronouncing” what?
(a) “A minimum sentence.”
(b) “A death-sentence.”
(c) “A life-sentence.”
(d) “Community service.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What are “projected masculine, full-sized and golden” in Section 29?

2. The poet says in Section 40, “To cotton-field drudge or” whom does he lean?

3. The poet describes coming again upon the earth after how many years in Section 43?

4. According to the poet in Section 30, “All truths wait in” what?

5. The poet describes taking himself “the exact dimensions of” whom, in Section 41?

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