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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The poet describes outbidding what “old cautious” characters in Section 41?
(a) Scuttlers.
(b) Hucksters.
(c) Visionaries.
(d) Sailors.

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

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

4. Who “shoulder their carbines and keep watch,” according to the poet in Section 37?
(a) “The housewives.”
(b) “The armed guards.”
(c) “The keepers of convicts.”
(d) “The sentries.”

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

6. Which of the five senses does the narrator address in Section 29?
(a) “Touch.”
(b) “Taste.”
(c) “Sound.”
(d) “Smell.”

7. The narrator asserts in Section 31 that “the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all” what?
(a) “Machinery.”
(b) “Insects.”
(c) “Civilization.”
(d) “Science.”

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

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

10. The poet begins Section 41 with the statement, “I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs, And for strong upright men I bring” what?
(a) “Oceans and sunlight.”
(b) “Anchors and bridges.”
(c) “Craters and volumes.”
(d) “Yet more needed help.”

11. What Norse god does Whitman describe in Section 41?
(a) Osiris.
(b) Belus.
(c) Odin.
(d) Brahma.

12. What does the narrator claim “indicates the moment” in Section 44?
(a) “The sun.”
(b) “The clock.”
(c) “The stars.”
(d) “The shadows.”

13. Who does the author say “embody themselves in me and I am embodied in them” at the end of Section 37?
(a) “Saints.”
(b) “Takers.”
(c) “Askers.”
(d) “Givers.”

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

15. What advice does the narrator give to the “dear son” in Section 46?
(a) “Imagine the future.”
(b) “Shoulder your duds.”
(c) “Face the east.”
(d) “Buck up and get ready.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What “is drawn on the slip-noose” in Section 33?

2. The narrator claims in Section 32, “I think I could turn and live with animals, they’re so placid and” what?

3. 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?

4. The narrator says in Section 45, “My lovers suffocate me, Crowding my lips, thick in the” what?

5. Three of what are “whizzing in a row from three lusty angels with shirts bagg'd out at their waists” in Section 41?

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