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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. The narrator makes a statement equating stoutness with what animal in Section 3?
(a) A moose.
(b) A horse.
(c) A buffalo.
(d) A cow.

2. The narrator states in Section 3, “I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the” what?
(a) “Rich and the poor.”
(b) “Chicken and the egg.”
(c) “Good and evil.”
(d) “Beginning and the end.”

3. The narrator says in Section 24, “I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of” what?
(a) “Illuminati.”
(b) “Socialism.”
(c) “Democracy.”
(d) “Monarchy.”

4. What is being carried in loads on the “slow-drawn wagon” in Section 9?
(a) Corn.
(b) Rice.
(c) Garlic.
(d) Dried grass.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What “impassive” objects “receive and return so many echoes,” according to the narrator in Section 8?

3. Section 9 begins with a description of the big doors of what building standing open?

4. The narrator describes being surrounded by “trippers” and what in the opening of Section 4?

5. The narrator claims in Section 15, “The married and unmarried children ride home to their” what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is “the lunatic” described in Section 15 of the poem?

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

3. What motif reappears in Section 17? Why does the poet use this motif here?

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

5. How is “the negro” described in Section 13 of the poem?

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

7. How does the poet relate with the “wild gander” in Section 14?

8. How does Section 13 begin? What is the focus of this section of the poem?

9. With whom does the poet relate in the beginning of Section 16?

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

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