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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whitman finds he is larger and better than he thought. He did not know he held so much ___________.
(a) Truth.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Goodness.

2. What will return as the ocean of life begins to ebb away from the shore, according to Whitman?
(a) Flow.
(b) Sand.
(c) Light
(d) Green.

3. The child and her father are looking in the _____ at the autumn skin in "On the Beach at Night."
(a) North.
(b) West.
(c) South.
(d) East.

4. The metaphor of __________ is used in relation to the plowman, tilling to life, while the harvester harvests in the end.
(a) Cycles.
(b) Regeneration.
(c) Death.
(d) Birth.

5. Who does Whitman say the person in the poem "Europe" was paid to do?
(a) Leave the land untouched.
(b) Write the poems.
(c) Defile the People.
(d) Cross the water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the poem which begins "forms, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts...."?

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

3. What does Whitman say that Ireland once was before she leaned and became tattered on the ground?

4. Whitman says that he often looks up at the perfect __________ of the stars during walks in the night.

5. What is the city of orgies, according to Whitman's poem of the same name?

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