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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 instrument is described as “the young man’s heart’s complaint” in Section 26?
(a) The violoncello.
(b) The clarinet.
(c) The flute.
(d) The bass.

2. What are described as “making a rush for my veins” in Section 28?
(a) “Winds of worry.”
(b) “Chariots of fire.”
(c) “Flames and ether.”
(d) “Curtains of gold.”

3. The narrator says in Section 46, “This day before dawn I ascended a hill and look’d at” what?
(a) “The rushing rivers.”
(b) “The empty lands.”
(c) “The waking animals.”
(d) “The crowded heaven.”

4. The narrator contends that he is the teacher of what, in the opening of Section 47?
(a) Athletes.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Historians.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What adjective describes the city’s houses in the beginning of Section 33?

3. What animal “walks to and fro on a limb overhead” in Section 33?

4. The poet claims in Section 48 that “whoever walks a furlong without” what “walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud”?

5. The narrator claims in Section 73, “Not a youngster is taken for” what, “but I go up too, and am tried and sentenced”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What events take place in the battle described in Section 34 of the poem?

2. What is implied of “the journey” of life in Section 44?

3. Where does the poet “stand” in Section 44? What conclusion has he reached?

4. What does the poet question and attempt to answer in Section 40 of the poem?

5. How does the poet relate truth and nature in Sections 30 and 31?

6. What sense and expression is discussed in the opening of Section 25?

7. What does the poet tell the world’s “priests” in Section 43?

8. How are time and eternity defined in Section 44 of the poem?

9. How are the Native Americans depicted in Section 39?

10. With what individuals does the poet relate in Section 33?

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