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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The poet proclaims in Section 44, “What is known I” do what to?
(a) “Hate.”
(b) “Strip away.”
(c) “Spit at.”
(d) “Step on.”

3. “Words” are described as being as “simple as” what, in Section 39?
(a) “Grass.”
(b) “Rocks.”
(c) “Flowers.”
(d) “Stars.”

4. 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) “Bible.”
(c) “Woman.”
(d) “Revelation.”

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

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

7. The narrator claims in Section 32, “I think I could turn and live with animals, they’re so placid and” what?
(a) “Wise.”
(b) “Self-contain’d.”
(c) “Patient.”
(d) “Aware.”

8. What is referred to as “a chef-d’oeuvre for the highest” in Section 31?
(a) “The tree-toad.”
(b) “The flying fish.”
(c) “The water bird.”
(d) “The ground squirrel.”

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

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

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

12. To what does the narrator say in Section 40, “You seem to look for something at my hands”?
(a) “Water.”
(b) “Earth.”
(c) “Wind.”
(d) “Fire.”

13. 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) “Chivalry.”
(c) “Learning.”
(d) “Sympathy.”

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

15. The poet states in Section 27, “I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am” what?
(a) “Saddened.”
(b) “Amazed.”
(c) “Happy.”
(d) “Curious.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Section 30 that logic and what “never convince”?

2. What creature “in his tough pimples sleeps by the bayou” in Section 33?

3. What creature “is whistling betwixt the woods and the wheatlot” in Section 33?

4. The poet says in Section 31 that he believes what “is no less than the journey-work of the stars”?

5. The narrator tells “the tale of the murder in cold blood of” how many young men in Section 34?

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