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

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

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

4. The poet says in Section 46, “No friend of mine takes his ease” where?
(a) “In my chair.”
(b) “On my porch.”
(c) “On my land.”
(d) “In my bed.”

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

6. The poet asks the reader in the opening of Section 35, “Would you hear of an old-time” what?
(a) “Sea-fight?”
(b) “Sky-fight?”
(c) “Swamp fight?”
(d) “Land fight?”

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

8. What archaic word in Section 31 refers to an ant?
(a) Scquttle.
(b) Concubine.
(c) Amoeba.
(d) Pismire.

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

10. To whom does the poet say “I might tell how I like you, but cannot” in Section 40?
(a) “Human or spirit.”
(b) “Dog or cat.”
(c) “Child or adult.”
(d) “Man or woman.”

11. The poet claims in Section 38, “I troop forth replenish'd with” what?
(a) “Nutritious food.”
(b) “Infinite energy.”
(c) “Supreme power.”
(d) “Gained knowledge.”

12. The poet describes taking himself “the exact dimensions of” whom, in Section 41?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Jehovah.
(c) Hercules.
(d) Odin.

13. 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) “Revelation.”
(d) “Woman.”

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Herds of what animals “make a crawling spread of the square miles far and near” in Section 33?

2. What does the poet refer to as “the sound I love,” in Section 26?

3. What “send their old heat against my approach,” according to the poet in Section 31?

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

5. What creature “suns his flabby length on a rock” in Section 33?

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