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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states in Section 3, “I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the” what?
(a) “Chicken and the egg.”
(b) “Rich and the poor.”
(c) “Good and evil.”
(d) “Beginning and the end.”

2. The narrator makes a statement equating stoutness with what animal in Section 3?
(a) A buffalo.
(b) A cow.
(c) A moose.
(d) A horse.

3. What word from Section 6 refers to a figure or symbol with a hidden meaning?
(a) Calligraphy.
(b) Character.
(c) Petroglyph.
(d) Hieroglyphic.

4. The narrator combines the word “respiration” with what word in Section 2?
(a) “Retaliation.”
(b) “Resignation.”
(c) “Inspiration.”
(d) “Desperation.”

5. In the conclusion of Section 6, the narrator states that “to die is different from what any one supposed, and” what?
(a) “Quicker.”
(b) “Painful.”
(c) “Pacifying.”
(d) “Luckier.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman writes in Section 1 of the poem that every what “belonging to me as good belongs to you”?

2. The narrator claims in Section 2 that the atmosphere “has no taste of” what?

3. The narrator claims to “lean and loafe at my ease observing” what, in Section 1?

4. The narrator states in Section 7, “Undrape! You are not guilty to me, nor stale nor” what?

5. How old does the narrator of the poem claim to be in Section 1?

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