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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is described “with grimed and hairy chests” environing the anvil in Section 12?
(a) Carpenters.
(b) Trappers.
(c) Blacksmiths.
(d) Doctors.

2. The narrator calls out to “beat the gong of” what, in Section 23?
(a) “Revolt.”
(b) “Victory.”
(c) “Failure.”
(d) “Submission.”

3. Whose proper name is stated in the poem in the beginning of Section 24?
(a) John Muir's.
(b) Teddy Roosevelt's.
(c) Walt Whitman’s.
(d) William Shakespeare’s.

4. The narrator claims in Section 5, “I know that the hand of God is the promise of” what?
(a) “Others.”
(b) “My own.”
(c) “Salvation.”
(d) “Good fortune.”

5. From where does the narrator describe following the movements of the men with sledges and hammers in the end of Section 12?
(a) “The wrecking yard.”
(b) “The freeway terminal.”
(c) “The mountain-cliff dwelling.”
(d) “The cinder-strew’d threshold.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator asserts in Section 20, “In all people I see” what?

2. The narrator claims in Section 20, “I laugh at what you call” what?

3. Where does the narrator say the “sharp-hoof’d moose” comes from in Section 14?

4. In the conclusion of Section 6, the narrator states that “to die is different from what any one supposed, and” what?

5. The narrator exclaims in Section 18, “Vivas to those who have” what?

Short Essay Questions

1. For whom does Whitman describe playing victory marches in Section 18?

2. What Christian allusion can be seen in the opening of Section 21?

3. How have critics and scholars interpreted the following sexually implicit lines in Section 5: “How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me”?

4. How does the poet relate the quality of “aroma” and of the air in Section 2?

5. What symbolism and metaphor are illustrated in Section 9 of the poem?

6. Whom does the poet invite to eat the meal in Section 19?

7. What foreshadowing is exhibited in Section 1 of the poem? How is the universal “I” set up in this section?

8. What imagery is the focus of Section 11 of the poem?

9. How does the poet define “I” and “you” in response to his own questions in Section 20?

10. What does the “twenty-ninth bather” represent metaphorically in Section 11?

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