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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 17-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of “these thoughts,” the narrator says “If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are” what, in Section 17?
(a) “Nothing.”
(b) “Unnerving.”
(c) “A mystery.”
(d) “A waste of time.”

2. From where does the narrator describe following the movements of the men with sledges and hammers in the end of Section 12?
(a) “The cinder-strew’d threshold.”
(b) “The freeway terminal.”
(c) “The wrecking yard.”
(d) “The mountain-cliff dwelling.”

3. Section 17 ends with the line, “This is the common air that bathes” what?
(a) “The county.”
(b) “The body.”
(c) “The globe.”
(d) “The country.”

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

5. 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?
(a) “Stomach.”
(b) “Bones.”
(c) “Tongue.”
(d) “Throat.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes being surrounded by “trippers” and what in the opening of Section 4?

2. The narrator says that he sees “the elementary laws never” do what, in Section 20?

3. The narrator compels the reader in Section 2 by stating, “Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess” what?

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

5. In the opening of Section 20, the narrator says, “Who goes there? Hankering, gross, mystical” and what?

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