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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Walt Whitman sees _______ exhaling from unexplored countries and savage types with bows and arrows.
(a) Vapors.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Myths.
(d) Stories.

2. Whitman hears that some people believe that he is trying to destroy ____________, which confuses him.
(a) Institutions.
(b) Libraries.
(c) Churches.
(d) Schools.

3. Who does Whitman see eating the bread of his last supper in the midst of youths and old persons?
(a) Mary.
(b) A death row inmate.
(c) A homeless man.
(d) Christ.

4. Which is the ancient country which Whitman seems to think is progressing into the future, much in the same way as America?
(a) Japan.
(b) India.
(c) China.
(d) Somalia.

5. Who does Whitman say that is is close with, murmuring alike reproachfully rolling sands and drift?
(a) Forests.
(b) Rivers.
(c) Children.
(d) Oceans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Whitman say that he does not forget, not in the summer or in the winter?

2. What carry the filaments of the news of wars, deaths, losses, gains, passions, and of race?

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

4. What causes the soldiers to fall into step and to arm themselves?

5. For how many years in Manhattan has Whitman watched the parades of soldiers through the city?

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