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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.”

3. What sound is described as emanating from flames in Section 26?
(a) “Whooshing.”
(b) “Gossip.”
(c) “Crackling.”
(d) “Whistling.”

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

5. By whom does the narrator say he has been “given up” in Section 28?
(a) “Pillagers.”
(b) “God.”
(c) “Priests.”
(d) “Traitors.”

6. 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 plutonic rocks.”
(d) “The willowy trees.”

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

8. 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) “Craters and volumes.”
(c) “Yet more needed help.”
(d) “Anchors and bridges.”

9. 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) “Hide in a fog.”
(c) “Send sun-rise out of me.”
(d) “Seek out a shadow.”

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

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

12. Of whom does the narrator say he “is closest to me, he knows me well” in Section 47?
(a) “The wolf father.”
(b) “The old priest.”
(c) “The young mechanic.”
(d) “The red-skinned trapper.”

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

14. The poet writes in Section 48, “And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed before” what?
(a) “The fire of Satan.”
(b) “The minister and judge.”
(c) “The face of God.”
(d) “A million universes.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says in Section 40, “I seize the descending man and raise him with resistless will, O despairer, here is my” what?

2. The poet states in Section 27, “I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am” what?

3. According to the poet in Section 31, what “would adorn the parlors of heaven”?

4. What are “projected masculine, full-sized and golden” in Section 29?

5. The narrator claims in Section 73, “Not a youngster is taken for” what, “but I go up too, and am tried and sentenced”?

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