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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. With another man, Whitman writes, he dilates and fuses the immortal laws and makes himself by them the _______ unto himself.
(a) Honor.
(b) Law.
(c) Truth.
(d) Love.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman wonders how the real _______ can ever die and be buried in the end?

2. Who does Whitman consider to be dear and dreadful to the earth, as he writes in one of his poems?

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

4. To what does Whitman say he is near at hand with a throat to inflate itself and sing joyfully?

5. What is permanent, lurking there within the body, the only purport of thous art, the real I myself?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Whitman warn the readers about the dangers of religion and those who are enamored of it?

2. What does Whitman state about the idea of what happens after death, though he is still unsure?

3. What are some of the similar points of religions which Whitman points out for the reader?

4. What can be determined about Whitman's life experiences by the reading of the many poems which Whitman has crafted about the water?

5. What is the main reason why Whitman says that he enjoys Manhattan so much during his travels there?

6. Who are some of the groups for which Whitman seems to have a particular affection in his poems?

7. What does Whitman have to say about the pain of loving a man or a woman in great excess?

8. What are some of the features of the Paumanok area of Long Island which makes the area special to Whitman?

9. What does the author feel about the idea of being present in the here and in the now?

10. What is so strange about the idea that Whitman is so fervently patriotic in the poems he has written? When was Whitman born in relation to the 'birth' of the United States?

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