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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _________ sprouts push through the snow, helping to reveal the coming of Spring and of the month of March.
(a) Small.
(b) Wet.
(c) New.
(d) Green.

2. Whitman was seized by a spirit, held by an _________self out of the pride which causes him to utter poems.
(a) Amazing.
(b) Electric.
(c) Authentic.
(d) Aggressive.

3. What are NOT one of the images of people who sleep well, which Whitman includes in his poems for comparison?
(a) A gay couple.
(b) A child in its mother's arms.
(c) Married couples.
(d) Bodies on battlefields.

4. Whitman says that not a disembodied _________ can the weapons of tyrants let loose, but it stalks invisibly.
(a) Spirit.
(b) Poem.
(c) Truth.
(d) Song.

5. Where does Whitman say there are beautiful hills which should be recognized as such?
(a) Maine.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) North Carolina.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is Whitman referring when he talks about the estuary which enlarges and spread itself grandly in the great sea?

2. Who does Whitman say the person in the poem "Europe" was paid to do?

3. What is described as never tiring, as being rude, silent, and incomprehensible at first?

4. The child and her father are looking in the _____ at the autumn skin in "On the Beach at Night."

5. Whitman believes there is terrible doubt in _____________, there is uncertainty and the possibility of being deluded.

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