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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. What does the narrator call those on guard when he tells them to “Look to your arms!” in Section 37?
(a) Whiners.
(b) Fibbers.
(c) Mockers.
(d) Laggards.
2. What is described as “the cataract falling like a veil over my countenance” in Section 33?
(a) The Nile.
(b) Bridal Veil Falls.
(c) Niagara.
(d) The Atlantic Ocean.
3. The narrator tells “the tale of the murder in cold blood of” how many young men in Section 34?
(a) 277.
(b) 412.
(c) 194.
(d) 363.
4. The poet describes taking himself “the exact dimensions of” whom, in Section 41?
(a) Odin.
(b) Hercules.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Jehovah.
5. What are “projected masculine, full-sized and golden” in Section 29?
(a) “Landscapes.”
(b) “Sunrises.”
(c) “Sunsets.”
(d) “Planets.”
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. What animal is “searching for roots or honey” in Section 33?
3. The narrator claims in Section 26 that the “orchestra whirls me wider than” what?
4. What advice does the narrator give to the “dear son” in Section 46?
5. Who does the author say “embody themselves in me and I am embodied in them” at the end of Section 37?
Short Essay Questions
1. What conclusions does the poet reach in Section 31?
2. What does the poet question and attempt to answer in Section 40 of the poem?
3. What war is described in Sections 35 and 36? How does the poet describe the aftermath of the battle?
4. In what way is the concept of “rebirth” illustrated in Section 38?
5. What reaction does the poet have to his circumstances in the opening of Section 38?
6. To what are flames compared in Section 28? Why?
7. How are time and eternity defined in Section 44 of the poem?
8. What have the “sentries” done, according to the narrator in Section 28?
9. What does the poet tell the world’s “priests” in Section 43?
10. How is the motif of the journey described in Section 46 of the poem?
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