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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the final line of the poem, the narrator states, “I stop somewhere waiting for” what?
(a) “Truth.”
(b) “God.”
(c) “You.”
(d) “Signs.”

2. What does the narrator say that seeing “at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books” in Section 24?
(a) “A sunflower.”
(b) “A morning-glory.”
(c) “A pansy.”
(d) “A puppy.”

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

4. The poet tells the dying in Section 40, “I dilate you with” what?
(a) “Lashing words.”
(b) “Piercing stare.”
(c) “Tremendous breath.”
(d) “Extreme scorn.”

5. What creature “in his tough pimples sleeps by the bayou” in Section 33?
(a) The frog.
(b) The wild boar.
(c) The alligator.
(d) The owl.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The poet claims in Section 21 that “it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,” and that “there is nothing greater than” what?

3. As the narrator watches “the little one” sleeping in Section 8, he silently brushes away what with his hand?

4. In Section 21, the poet claims, “I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the” what?

5. What sound is the “wild gander” cited as calling out as he passes in Section 14?

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