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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) “Send sun-rise out of me.”
(b) “Seek out a shadow.”
(c) “Hide in a fog.”
(d) “Produce my own clouds.”

2. What character is “sold at the auction-stand” in Section 15?
(a) The Mexican girl.
(b) The quadroon girl.
(c) The Asian girl.
(d) The Polish boy.

3. Who “shoulder their carbines and keep watch,” according to the poet in Section 37?
(a) “The sentries.”
(b) “The armed guards.”
(c) “The housewives.”
(d) “The keepers of convicts.”

4. Who is described with the line, “Wherever he goes men and women accept and desire him” in Section 39?
(a) “The saintly priest.”
(b) “The god of the shepherds.”
(c) “The ancient warrior.”
(d) “The friendly and flowing savage.”

5. “Behavior” is described as “lawless” as what in Section 39?
(a) “Raindrops.”
(b) “Snow-flakes.”
(c) “Falling leaves.”
(d) “Rapid rivers.”

Short Answer Questions

1. How many horses is “the negro” driving in Section 13?

2. What does the narrator call those on guard when he tells them to “Look to your arms!” in Section 37?

3. What sound is described as emanating from flames in Section 26?

4. The narrator says in Section 40, “I seize the descending man and raise him with resistless will, O despairer, here is my” what?

5. What word used in the opening of Section 15 refers to the lowest female voice or voice part, intermediate between soprano and tenor?

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