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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is described as “the cataract falling like a veil over my countenance” in Section 33?
(a) The Atlantic Ocean.
(b) Niagara.
(c) Bridal Veil Falls.
(d) The Nile.

2. What creature “is whistling betwixt the woods and the wheatlot” in Section 33?
(a) The hawk.
(b) The finch.
(c) The quail.
(d) The pheasant.

3. In the final lines of Section 25, the poet claims, “Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof and every thing else in my” what?
(a) “Mind.”
(b) “Body.”
(c) “Face.”
(d) “Spirit.”

4. What instrument is described as “the young man’s heart’s complaint” in Section 26?
(a) The flute.
(b) The violoncello.
(c) The clarinet.
(d) The bass.

5. The poet claims in Section 48 that “whoever walks a furlong without” what “walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud”?
(a) “Appreciation.”
(b) “Sympathy.”
(c) “Chivalry.”
(d) “Learning.”

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

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

8. Three of what are “whizzing in a row from three lusty angels with shirts bagg'd out at their waists” in Section 41?
(a) “Scarves.”
(b) “Brooms.”
(c) “Scythes.”
(d) “Whips.”

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

10. The poet says in Section 31, “In vain the buzzard houses herself with” what?
(a) “Bark and moss.”
(b) “The sky.”
(c) “Sticks and leaves.”
(d) “The clouds.”

11. The narrator says in Section 25, “My voice goes after what my” what “cannot reach”?
(a) “Nose.”
(b) “Eyes.”
(c) “Lips.”
(d) “Fingertips.”

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

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

14. 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) “Send sun-rise out of me.”
(c) “Hide in a fog.”
(d) “Produce my own clouds.”

15. The poet describes “considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand just as curious as any” what, in Section 41?
(a) “Child.”
(b) “Revelation.”
(c) “Bible.”
(d) “Woman.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes the judge in Section 26 as “with hands tight to the desk, his pallid lips pronouncing” what?

2. “Behavior” is described as “lawless” as what in Section 39?

3. What are described as “making a rush for my veins” in Section 28?

4. What advice does the narrator give to the “dear son” in Section 46?

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

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