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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Walt Whitman sees _______ exhaling from unexplored countries and savage types with bows and arrows.
(a) Myths.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Stories.
(d) Vapors.

2. Who does Whitman not want to shut their proud doors to him, as stated in a poem of that same idea?
(a) Armies.
(b) Libraries.
(c) Schools.
(d) Churches.

3. Whitman is not only considering the idea of death, but also of chanting the chant of ___________.
(a) Allegiance.
(b) Honor.
(c) Battles.
(d) Truth.

4. What has been named with can not be countermanded in struggles and in wars?
(a) Birth.
(b) Death.
(c) Truth.
(d) Goal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is the water in the poem, "In Cabin'd Ships at Sea," as it moves around the boat?

2. The ___________ is equal with the male according to Whitman in the first page of his poetry book?

3. How old is Whitman at the time of his writing his poems, noting this in his poems and that he is in good health?

4. Whitman believes that all heroic deeds were conceived in __________, as are all free poems.

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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