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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the city of orgies, according to Whitman's poem of the same name?
(a) Manhattan.
(b) Newark.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Boston.

2. Where did Whitman say that he sat studying the older times of American? The feet of ___________.
(a) Mary.
(b) The great masters.
(c) God.
(d) Jesus.

3. What shape is Paumanok, according to the way that Whitman describes it in his poetry?
(a) Square.
(b) Fish.
(c) Bean.
(d) Spiral.

4. The ___________ is equal with the male according to Whitman in the first page of his poetry book?
(a) Country.
(b) River.
(c) Female.
(d) Tree.

5. What is permanent, lurking there within the body, the only purport of thous art, the real I myself?
(a) Body.
(b) Brain.
(c) Head.
(d) Spirit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose self does Whitman sing when he begins his collection of poems in this particular book?

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

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

4. What is flying aloft as the ship begins to go out into the sea in "The Ship Starting"?

5. Who does Whitman answer for when he takes the young man's hands in his own?

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