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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The poet claims in Section 47, “I swear I will never again mention” what “inside a house”?
(a) “News or gossip.”
(b) “Fact or fiction.”
(c) “Religion or politics.”
(d) “Love or death.”

2. The narrator says in Section 40, “I seize the descending man and raise him with resistless will, O despairer, here is my” what?
(a) “Leg.”
(b) “Neck.”
(c) “Heart.”
(d) “Hand.”

3. The narrator describes the judge in Section 26 as “with hands tight to the desk, his pallid lips pronouncing” what?
(a) “Community service.”
(b) “A life-sentence.”
(c) “A death-sentence.”
(d) “A minimum sentence.”

4. What is referred to as “a chef-d’oeuvre for the highest” in Section 31?
(a) “The flying fish.”
(b) “The water bird.”
(c) “The tree-toad.”
(d) “The ground squirrel.”

5. To what does the narrator say in Section 40, “You seem to look for something at my hands”?
(a) “Water.”
(b) “Wind.”
(c) “Earth.”
(d) “Fire.”

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

7. The narrator asserts in Section 31 that “the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all” what?
(a) “Insects.”
(b) “Machinery.”
(c) “Civilization.”
(d) “Science.”

8. Which of the five senses does the narrator address in Section 29?
(a) “Touch.”
(b) “Smell.”
(c) “Sound.”
(d) “Taste.”

9. The poet describes taking himself “the exact dimensions of” whom, in Section 41?
(a) Odin.
(b) Jehovah.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Hercules.

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

11. Who is described as the son of Kronos in Section 41?
(a) Midas.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Hercules.
(d) Odin.

12. The poet describes coming again upon the earth after how many years in Section 43?
(a) 2,500.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 500.
(d) 15,000.

13. What archaic word in Section 31 refers to an ant?
(a) Concubine.
(b) Pismire.
(c) Scquttle.
(d) Amoeba.

14. Of animals, the poet says in Section 32, “Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of” what?
(a) “Loving peace.”
(b) “Earning a wage.”
(c) “Owning things.”
(d) “Religious boundaries.”

15. The narrator claims in Section 26 that the “orchestra whirls me wider than” what?
(a) “Canyons gape.”
(b) “Deserts spread.”
(c) “Uranus flies.”
(d) “Mountains rise.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The poet tells the dying in Section 40, “I dilate you with” what?

2. The poet claims in Section 48 that “whoever walks a furlong without” what “walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud”?

3. The narrator claims in Section 73, “Not a youngster is taken for” what, “but I go up too, and am tried and sentenced”?

4. In the final lines of Section 25, the poet claims, “Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof and every thing else in my” what?

5. The poet describes outbidding what “old cautious” characters in Section 41?

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