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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are houses and rooms full of? What are shelves crowded with according to Whitman?
(a) Perfumes.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Truth.
(d) Deceit.

2. 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.

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?
(a) 18.
(b) 27.
(c) 28.
(d) 37.

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

5. What is forever and ever, longer than soil is brown and solid, longer than water ebbs and flows?
(a) Faith.
(b) Soul.
(c) Family.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Whitman say that he sat studying the older times of American? The feet of ___________.

2. Who does Whitman not want to shut their proud doors to him, as stated in a poem of that same idea?

3. What do the lovers who exit the room after the night leave over baskets, swelling the house with their plenty?

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

5. How does Whitman spell Canada when he uses the name in the poem, "On Journeys through the States"?

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