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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 49-52.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the narrator say “the other I am not must not abase itself to you” in Section 5?
(a) “My scalp.”
(b) “My soul.”
(c) “My intestines.”
(d) “My youth.”

2. The narrator claims “I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or” what, in Section 20?
(a) “To confuse.”
(b) “Be understood.”
(c) “Look to the stars.”
(d) “Be admonished.”

3. The narrator describes being surrounded by “trippers” and what in the opening of Section 4?
(a) “Rollers.”
(b) “Laughers.”
(c) “Wanderers.”
(d) “Askers.”

4. The poet says in Section 40, “To cotton-field drudge or” whom does he lean?
(a) “Fixer of tractors.”
(b) “Cleaner of privies.”
(c) “Birther of animals.”
(d) “Gutter of fish.”

5. What “impassive” objects “receive and return so many echoes,” according to the narrator in Section 8?
(a) “Trees.”
(b) “Clouds.”
(c) “Swamps.”
(d) “Stones.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What is referred to as “a chef-d’oeuvre for the highest” in Section 31?

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

3. What word from Section 6 refers to a figure or symbol with a hidden meaning?

4. What question does the narrator say a child asked in Section 6?

5. What are described as “making a rush for my veins” in Section 28?

(see the answer key)

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