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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what does the narrator exclaim “Hurrah!” for in Section 23?
(a) “Positive science.”
(b) “Events.”
(c) “Politics.”
(d) “Positive emotions.”

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

3. The narrator claims in Section 2 that the atmosphere “has no taste of” what?
(a) “The reconciliation.”
(b) “The concentration.”
(c) “The distillation.”
(d) “The emancipation.”

4. The narrator says in Section 24, “I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of” what?
(a) “Socialism.”
(b) “Illuminati.”
(c) “Monarchy.”
(d) “Democracy.”

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

6. 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) “Throat.”
(b) “Bones.”
(c) “Tongue.”
(d) “Stomach.”

7. What character is “sold at the auction-stand” in Section 15?
(a) The Polish boy.
(b) The Asian girl.
(c) The Mexican girl.
(d) The quadroon girl.

8. 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?
(a) “The owner of the animals.”
(b) “The cousin of the animals.”
(c) “The mother of men.”
(d) “The father of children.”

9. The narrator says in Section 10 that while he wanders “alone in the wilds and mountains” he is amazed at his own what?
(a) “Questions and answers.”
(b) “Wonder and reverence.”
(c) “Strife and terror.”
(d) “Lightness and glee.”

10. 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) “A waste of time.”
(b) “A mystery.”
(c) “Nothing.”
(d) “Unnerving.”

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

12. How does the poet describe the summer night in Section 21?
(a) “Hot sweaty summer night.”
(b) “Rich with water summer night.”
(c) “Mad naked summer night.”
(d) “Pulsing gray summer night.”

13. Who “sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron” in Section 15?
(a) The Wolverine.
(b) The Beaver.
(c) The Wolf.
(d) The Badger.

14. In Section 21, the poet claims, “I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the” what?
(a) “Soul.”
(b) “Earth.”
(c) “Animals.”
(d) “Mind.”

15. As the narrator watches “the little one” sleeping in Section 8, he silently brushes away what with his hand?
(a) Flies.
(b) Bats.
(c) Moths.
(d) Mosquitoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator asserts in Section 20, “I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by” what?

2. What word does the poet describe as “a word of the modern” in Section 23?

3. What word used in the opening of Section 15 refers to the lowest female voice or voice part, intermediate between soprano and tenor?

4. What kind of boat is described “under her sky-sails” in Section 10?

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

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