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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The poet tells the dying in Section 40, “I dilate you with” what?
(a) “Extreme scorn.”
(b) “Tremendous breath.”
(c) “Lashing words.”
(d) “Piercing stare.”

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

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

4. The narrator says in Section 46, “This day before dawn I ascended a hill and look’d at” what?
(a) “The empty lands.”
(b) “The waking animals.”
(c) “The crowded heaven.”
(d) “The rushing rivers.”

5. What are described as “making a rush for my veins” in Section 28?
(a) “Chariots of fire.”
(b) “Curtains of gold.”
(c) “Flames and ether.”
(d) “Winds of worry.”

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

7. 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) “Spirit.”
(d) “Face.”

8. The narrator contends that he is the teacher of what, in the opening of Section 47?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Athletes.
(c) Scientists.
(d) Historians.

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

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

11. The narrator says in Section 40, “I seize the descending man and raise him with resistless will, O despairer, here is my” what?
(a) “Heart.”
(b) “Leg.”
(c) “Neck.”
(d) “Hand.”

12. The narrator claims in Section 26 that the “orchestra whirls me wider than” what?
(a) “Uranus flies.”
(b) “Canyons gape.”
(c) “Mountains rise.”
(d) “Deserts spread.”

13. Who is described with the line, “Wherever he goes men and women accept and desire him” in Section 39?
(a) “The ancient warrior.”
(b) “The saintly priest.”
(c) “The friendly and flowing savage.”
(d) “The god of the shepherds.”

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

15. Herds of what animals “make a crawling spread of the square miles far and near” in Section 33?
(a) Buffalo.
(b) Elk.
(c) Deer.
(d) Cattle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who “shoulder their carbines and keep watch,” according to the poet in Section 37?

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

4. The narrator says in Section 34 that he will now tell what he knew in what location in early youth?

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

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