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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 26-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The combination of justice and God, according to Whitman, can be blended together to make an immortal ___________.
(a) Government.
(b) Reality.
(c) Story.
(d) Armistice.

2. Who asks Whitman to sing a song that no poet has yet to have chanted?
(a) Muse.
(b) A flower.
(c) The grass.
(d) God.

3. What will Whitman plant as thick as trees along all the rivers of America and along the shores of all the great lakes?
(a) Patriotism.
(b) Companionship.
(c) Shrubs.
(d) Honor.

4. Whitman addresses the reader in "To You," telling the reader he fears they are walking the walks of _____________.
(a) Armies.
(b) Pain.
(c) Clouds.
(d) Dreams.

5. Who does Whitman say that is is close with, murmuring alike reproachfully rolling sands and drift?
(a) Children.
(b) Oceans.
(c) Rivers.
(d) Forests.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Whitman say that he will expose when he runs his furrow with his plough and press his spade through the sod?

2. When Whitman sits and looks out into the world, he sees all the __________ and the agony without end.

3. During this section of the poems, what age does Whitman profess to being?

4. Who are the tan faced children who follow well in order and get their weapons ready?

5. Whitman says that he was offering too long to feed his soul with __________, which was clearly not a good idea..

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