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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 41-44.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the author say “embody themselves in me and I am embodied in them” at the end of Section 37?
(a) “Givers.”
(b) “Takers.”
(c) “Askers.”
(d) “Saints.”

2. Three of what are “whizzing in a row from three lusty angels with shirts bagg'd out at their waists” in Section 41?
(a) “Scythes.”
(b) “Whips.”
(c) “Brooms.”
(d) “Scarves.”

3. The poet asks the reader in the opening of Section 35, “Would you hear of an old-time” what?
(a) “Sky-fight?”
(b) “Sea-fight?”
(c) “Swamp fight?”
(d) “Land fight?”

4. 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?
(a) “Anchors and bridges.”
(b) “Craters and volumes.”
(c) “Yet more needed help.”
(d) “Oceans and sunlight.”

5. What “send their old heat against my approach,” according to the poet in Section 31?
(a) “The vacant air.”
(b) “The willowy trees.”
(c) “The plutonic rocks.”
(d) “The grains of sand.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator claims in Section 26 that the “orchestra whirls me wider than” what?

2. What character is “sold at the auction-stand” in Section 15?

3. As the narrator watches “the little one” sleeping in Section 8, he silently brushes away what with his hand?

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

5. The narrator asks the reader in Section 2, “Have you reckon’d” how many acres?

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