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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animal is “searching for roots or honey” in Section 33?
(a) The black bear.
(b) The wolf.
(c) The badger.
(d) The porcupine.

2. The poet describes “considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand just as curious as any” what, in Section 41?
(a) “Child.”
(b) “Bible.”
(c) “Woman.”
(d) “Revelation.”

3. What color shirt is “the negro” wearing in Section 13?
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) Blue.

4. The poet describes outbidding what “old cautious” characters in Section 41?
(a) Visionaries.
(b) Sailors.
(c) Hucksters.
(d) Scuttlers.

5. Who is described as the grandson of Kronos in Section 41?
(a) Odin.
(b) Hercules.
(c) Midas.
(d) Zeus.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator makes a statement equating stoutness with what animal in Section 3?

2. What is being carried in loads on the “slow-drawn wagon” in Section 9?

3. The narrator says in Section 10 that while he wanders “alone in the wilds and mountains” he is amazed at his own what?

4. The narrator says in Section 20, “Having pried through the strata, analyzed to a hair, counsel'd with doctors and calculated close, I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own” what?

5. 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?

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