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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 18-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is singing the song, a husky song as the main character in the poem walks on the beach at night alone?
(a) Brother.
(b) Mother.
(c) Sister.
(d) Father.

2. Who is the man that Whitman describes as being very cute, a man who is a made man from this day?
(a) Jonathan.
(b) Thomas.
(c) George.
(d) Bill.

3. Where did Whitman say that he sat studying the older times of American? The feet of ___________.
(a) The great masters.
(b) God.
(c) Mary.
(d) Jesus.

4. What kind of headsman stands mask'd, clothed in red, with huge legs and strong naked arms?
(a) Asian.
(b) European.
(c) Australian.
(d) American.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is forever and ever, longer than soil is brown and solid, longer than water ebbs and flows?

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

4. Whitman is not only considering the idea of death, but also of chanting the chant of ___________.

5. Whitman says that years of ____________ are transient and strange, though he says he too is one.

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