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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the lovers who exit the room after the night leave over baskets, swelling the house with their plenty?
(a) Money.
(b) Words.
(c) White towels.
(d) Birds.

3. 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.

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

5. Who does Whitman consider to be dear and dreadful to the earth, as he writes in one of his poems?
(a) Women.
(b) Beginners.
(c) Truth tellers.
(d) Sages.

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

7. "You furnish your parts toward eternity, Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the ________."
(a) End.
(b) Answer.
(c) Truth.
(d) Soul.

8. Whitman ponders where he actually knows anything of his own ________ as he thinks about the biography of another.
(a) Message.
(b) History.
(c) Needs.
(d) Life.

9. What did Whitman used to pull up from the water when he lived in his hometown during the summer months?
(a) Lobster pots.
(b) Seaweed.
(c) Fish traps.
(d) Netting.

10. To what state does Whitman promise to know very well after traveling to it?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Florida.
(c) Illinois.
(d) California.

11. Who leaves natural breaths, the sounds of rains and winds, calls as the birds and animals in the woods?
(a) The Gods.
(b) Red aborigines.
(c) The birds.
(d) The mothers.

12. Whose self does Whitman sing when he begins his collection of poems in this particular book?
(a) Him.
(b) One's.
(c) Those.
(d) Her.

13. What is NOT a word which is used to describe the poets Whitman says are still to come in the world?
(a) Honest.
(b) Continental.
(c) Native.
(d) Athletic.

14. Whitman proposes that grass is the ___________ of the Lord, when he contemplates it as a child.
(a) Handkerchief.
(b) Blanket.
(c) Food.
(d) Cup.

15. What did Whitman once feel was impassive, ample, and spheric in nature, though he is changing his mind?
(a) Earth.
(b) Moon.
(c) America.
(d) Hawaii.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are houses and rooms full of? What are shelves crowded with according to Whitman?

3. Which sort of bird caused Whitman to stop and open listen to it opening its throat and joyfully singing?

4. How old is Whitman at the time of his writing his poems, noting this in his poems and that he is in good health?

5. Who does Whitman profess to folding in every leaf of his poetry in order to celebrate the sea?

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