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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The poet says in Section 44, “I am an acme of things accomplish’d, and I am an enclose of” what?
(a) “Things to be.”
(b) “Things forgotten.”
(c) “Things remembered.”
(d) “The impossible.”

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

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

4. The narrator states in Section 30 that logic and what “never convince”?
(a) Morals.
(b) Destiny.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Sermons.

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

6. What “is drawn on the slip-noose” in Section 33?
(a) The sun.
(b) The phoenix.
(c) The ocean.
(d) The life-car.

7. The narrator states “Now I will do nothing but” what, in the opening of Section 26?
(a) “Wonder.”
(b) “Listen.”
(c) “Stare.”
(d) “Yell.”

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

9. To whom does the narrator say the sentries have left him helpless in Section 28?
(a) “A red marauder.”
(b) “The devil.”
(c) “God.”
(d) “A cutthroat gambler.”

10. The poet says in Section 31 that he believes what “is no less than the journey-work of the stars”?
(a) “A flying bird.”
(b) “A swimming fish.”
(c) “A newborn sheep.”
(d) “A leaf of grass.”

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

12. What “cuts like a black chip out of the water,” according to the poet in Section 33?
(a) “The wing of the ray.”
(b) “The shell of the clam.”
(c) “The fin of the shark.”
(d) “The beak of the octopus.”

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator claims in Section 33, “I am the hounded slave, I wince at the bite of” what?

2. The narrator says in Section 46, “This day before dawn I ascended a hill and look’d at” what?

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

4. To whom does the poet say “I might tell how I like you, but cannot” in Section 40?

5. By whom does the narrator say he has been “given up” in Section 28?

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