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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 calls the ostent evanescent the substances of a/an _________ mood or savan's studies long.
(a) Woman's.
(b) Child's.
(c) Scientist's.
(d) Artist's.

2. Whitman wonders how the real _______ can ever die and be buried in the end?
(a) Person.
(b) Book.
(c) Word.
(d) Body.

3. What is flying aloft as the ship begins to go out into the sea in "The Ship Starting"?
(a) Hands.
(b) Hopes.
(c) Ribbons.
(d) Pennants.

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

5. Who is singing the varied carols which Whitman can hear as mentioned in a poem which reveals the answer?
(a) America.
(b) Canada.
(c) Men.
(d) Criminals.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Carry me when you go forth over land or sea; For thus merely ______________ you is enough, is best."

2. What is permanent, lurking there within the body, the only purport of thous art, the real I myself?

3. What has been named with can not be countermanded in struggles and in wars?

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

5. What will Whitman plant as thick as trees along all the rivers of America and along the shores of all the great lakes?

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