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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 5-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whitman points out that it is not on the reader that they alone have ___________ which fall on them
(a) Anger.
(b) Trust.
(c) Pain.
(d) Dark patches.

2. Which sort of bird caused Whitman to stop and open listen to it opening its throat and joyfully singing?
(a) He-bird.
(b) Song dove.
(c) Robin.
(d) She-bird.

3. Whitman realizes he was still not happen when he heard _________ and was received well at the capitol.
(a) His voice.
(b) His poem.
(c) His name.
(d) Silence.

4. Whitman says that he was offering too long to feed his soul with __________, which was clearly not a good idea..
(a) Truths.
(b) Answers.
(c) Questions.
(d) Standards.

5. Whitman addresses other countries who are striving to prove the puzzle of America, the athletic ______________.
(a) Grasses.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Constitution.
(d) Ambition.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman believes himself to be as trustful to his poems as a father is to his _______________.

2. Whitman says it is a painful thing to ___________ someone to excess, yet the rewards are great.

3. Who does Whitman not want to shut their proud doors to him, as stated in a poem of that same idea?

4. "You furnish your parts toward eternity, Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the ________."

5. Whitman hears that some people believe that he is trying to destroy ____________, which confuses him.

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