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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Whitman at the time of his writing his poems, noting this in his poems and that he is in good health?
(a) 27.
(b) 28.
(c) 18.
(d) 37.

2. Whitman believes himself to be as trustful to his poems as a father is to his _______________.
(a) Home.
(b) Wife.
(c) Family.
(d) Children.

3. What color is the water in the poem, "In Cabin'd Ships at Sea," as it moves around the boat?
(a) Black.
(b) Gray.
(c) Blue.
(d) Green.

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 sort of song does Whitman say he will sing in the sixth inscription of the book's opening?
(a) Companionship.
(b) Leaves.
(c) Truth.
(d) Patriotism.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Once a state is fully enslaved, according to Whitman, no nation, state, city, of the Earth can resume its ____________.

4. Whitman calls the ostent evanescent the substances of a/an _________ mood or savan's studies long.

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

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