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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 26-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Whitman say that is is close with, murmuring alike reproachfully rolling sands and drift?
(a) Forests.
(b) Rivers.
(c) Oceans.
(d) Children.

2. Who does Whitman profess to folding in every leaf of his poetry in order to celebrate the sea?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Mariners.
(c) Poets.
(d) Sea serpents.

3. What does Whitman say goes to and fro, seeking a livelihood, chattering, and chaffering?
(a) A worker.
(b) Shadow.
(c) Soul.
(d) His muse.

4. Even those, Whitman says, that know unrequited ________ can sleep, as do prisoners.
(a) Love.
(b) Patience.
(c) Death.
(d) Loss.

5. Who does Whitman say the person in the poem "Europe" was paid to do?
(a) Leave the land untouched.
(b) Defile the People.
(c) Write the poems.
(d) Cross the water.

Short Answer Questions

1. The ___________ cheerfully braves the winter, says Whitman when he addresses this group, the snow and ice welcoming him.

2. What is forever and ever, longer than soil is brown and solid, longer than water ebbs and flows?

3. What does Whitman beckon to sound clearer in and through the atmosphere?

4. What did Whitman once feel was impassive, ample, and spheric in nature, though he is changing his mind?

5. What color of hair does Whitman say that Ireland has now as she is changing from what she once was?

(see the answer key)

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