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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 37-40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the final lines of Section 25, the poet claims, “Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof and every thing else in my” what?
(a) “Face.”
(b) “Spirit.”
(c) “Body.”
(d) “Mind.”

2. The poet announces in Section 40, “To any one dying, thither I speed and twist” what?
(a) “The knob of the door.”
(b) “The sword in the cloud.”
(c) “The hand of the attic.”
(d) “The knife in the wound.”

3. “Words” are described as being as “simple as” what, in Section 39?
(a) “Flowers.”
(b) “Grass.”
(c) “Rocks.”
(d) “Stars.”

4. The narrator says in Section 14, “The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred” what?
(a) “Thoughts.”
(b) “Recollections.”
(c) “Affections.”
(d) “Prayers.”

5. The “lunatic” described in Section 15 “will never sleep any more as he did in the cot” where?
(a) “In the living room.”
(b) “In the barn.”
(c) “In the outhouse.”
(d) “In his mother’s bedroom.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What color, in addition to green, is considered the “tufted crown intentional” by the narrator in Section 13?

2. The poet tells the dying in Section 40, “I dilate you with” what?

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

4. The narrator states “Now I will do nothing but” what, in the opening of Section 26?

5. The poet says in Section 25, “Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always” do what?

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