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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says in Section 45, “My lovers suffocate me, Crowding my lips, thick in the” what?
(a) “Pores of my skin.”
(b) “Thoughts of my mind.”
(c) “Touch of my hand.”
(d) “Gaze of my eyes.”

2. Who is described as the grandson of Kronos in Section 41?
(a) Odin.
(b) Hercules.
(c) Midas.
(d) Zeus.

3. What does the narrator call those on guard when he tells them to “Look to your arms!” in Section 37?
(a) Mockers.
(b) Fibbers.
(c) Laggards.
(d) Whiners.

4. The poet says in Section 25, “Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always” do what?
(a) “Seek out a shadow.”
(b) “Produce my own clouds.”
(c) “Hide in a fog.”
(d) “Send sun-rise out of me.”

5. The poet describes taking himself “the exact dimensions of” whom, in Section 41?
(a) Hercules.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Odin.
(d) Jehovah.

6. What adjective describes the city’s houses in the beginning of Section 33?
(a) Triangular.
(b) Rectangular.
(c) Obtuse.
(d) Quadrangular.

7. According to the poet in Section 30, “All truths wait in” what?
(a) “Clouds of mystery.”
(b) “All things.”
(c) “Due time.”
(d) “Balls of lies.”

8. What animal “walks to and fro on a limb overhead” in Section 33?
(a) The panther.
(b) The squirrel.
(c) The bird.
(d) The lemur.

9. What are “projected masculine, full-sized and golden” in Section 29?
(a) “Sunrises.”
(b) “Sunsets.”
(c) “Planets.”
(d) “Landscapes.”

10. What does the poet say he opens at night to “see the far-sprinkled systems” in Section 45?
(a) A scuttle.
(b) A pismire.
(c) A prism.
(d) A telescope.

11. The poet asserts in Section 25, “Come now I will not be tantalized, you conceive too much of” what?
(a) “Willingness.”
(b) “Beauty.”
(c) “Articulation.”
(d) “Godliness.”

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

13. The narrator claims in Section 33, “I am the hounded slave, I wince at the bite of” what?
(a) “Man.”
(b) “The bugs.”
(c) “The snakes.”
(d) “The dogs.”

14. The poet describes coming again upon the earth after how many years in Section 43?
(a) 2,500.
(b) 500.
(c) 15,000.
(d) 5,000.

15. 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.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The poet proclaims in Section 42, “This is the city and I am one of the” what?

2. The narrator contends that he is the teacher of what, in the opening of Section 47?

3. To whom does the narrator say the sentries have left him helpless in Section 28?

4. What “is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels,” in Section 31?

5. What creature “suns his flabby length on a rock” in Section 33?

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