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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 does the “red girl” marry in Section 10?
(a) The trapper.
(b) The painter.
(c) The fisherman.
(d) The lumberjack.
2. What does the butcher-boy put off, according to the narrator in Section 12?
(a) “His resting clothes.”
(b) “His killing-clothes.”
(c) “His working clothes.”
(d) “His church clothes.”
3. What color shirt is “the negro” wearing in Section 13?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Blue.
4. Whitman writes in Section 1 of the poem that every what “belonging to me as good belongs to you”?
(a) “Bible.”
(b) “Religion.”
(c) “Element.”
(d) “Atom.”
5. What word used in the opening of Section 15 refers to the lowest female voice or voice part, intermediate between soprano and tenor?
(a) Cello.
(b) Contralto.
(c) Pismire.
(d) Tenor.
Short Answer Questions
1. With whom does the narrator describe spending “that day round the chowder-kettle” in Section 10?
2. The narrator claims “I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or” what, in Section 20?
3. The narrator asserts in Section 18 that “battles are lost in the same spirit in which” what?
4. The narrator of the poem claims in Section 1 that “what I assume you shall” what?
5. The poet claims in Section 21 that “it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,” and that “there is nothing greater than” what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the poet define “I” and “you” in response to his own questions in Section 20?
2. What foreshadowing is exhibited in Section 1 of the poem? How is the universal “I” set up in this section?
3. What comparison of women and men is made by the poet in Section 21?
4. What Christian allusion can be seen in the opening of Section 21?
5. What motif returns to the narrative in Section 6? How is this motif examined here?
6. What is signified by these lines from Section 1: “I loafe and invite my soul, / I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass”?
7. How does Section 13 begin? What is the focus of this section of the poem?
8. What is the metaphorical meaning in the following lines from Section 7: “Has any one supposed it lucky to be born? / I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.”?
9. How does the poet’s delineation of “self” evolve in Section 5 of the poem?
10. How does the poet relate with the “wild gander” in Section 14?
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