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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 33-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the poet in Section 30, “All truths wait in” what?
(a) “Clouds of mystery.”
(b) “Due time.”
(c) “All things.”
(d) “Balls of lies.”

2. The poet says in Section 31, “In vain the buzzard houses herself with” what?
(a) “The clouds.”
(b) “The sky.”
(c) “Sticks and leaves.”
(d) “Bark and moss.”

3. Whitman writes in Section 1 of the poem that every what “belonging to me as good belongs to you”?
(a) “Atom.”
(b) “Element.”
(c) “Religion.”
(d) “Bible.”

4. The narrator describes “the little one” as sleeping where in the opening of Section 8?
(a) “Its cradle.”
(b) “The bed.”
(c) “The bathtub.”
(d) “A basket.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Herds of what animals “make a crawling spread of the square miles far and near” in Section 33?

2. Who “sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron” in Section 15?

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

4. What color, in addition to green, is considered the “tufted crown intentional” by the narrator in Section 13?

5. What does the narrator say he does “alone far in the wilds and mountains” in Section 10?

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