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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 ponders where he actually knows anything of his own ________ as he thinks about the biography of another.
(a) Needs.
(b) History.
(c) Message.
(d) Life.

2. Whitman believes there is terrible doubt in _____________, there is uncertainty and the possibility of being deluded.
(a) Government.
(b) Children.
(c) Appearances.
(d) Nature.

3. Whitman expresses that he knows the __________ does not know how longingly he looked at them.
(a) Passing stranger.
(b) Woman.
(c) Blade of grass.
(d) Old woman.

4. It is the engineer's joy to go with the _____________ in his days.
(a) Coal.
(b) Locomotive.
(c) Cars.
(d) Track.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is described as never tiring, as being rude, silent, and incomprehensible at first?

2. Whitman says he will make a true ________ which will earn for the body and mind whatever sticks and does not droop in death.

3. What did Whitman used to pull up from the water when he lived in his hometown during the summer months?

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

5. What shape is Paumanok, according to the way that Whitman describes it in his poetry?

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