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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What carry the filaments of the news of wars, deaths, losses, gains, passions, and of race?
(a) Pigeons.
(b) Phones.
(c) Breezes.
(d) Telegraphs.

2. From Whitman's breast, he says that he has concealed confession drops. What color are these drops?
(a) Clear.
(b) Blue.
(c) Red.
(d) Green.

3. Though Whitman says he paints myriads of heads, he also says that he paints head without a ________.
(a) Golden nimbus of light.
(b) Smile.
(c) Green crown.
(d) Purple coloring.

4. What color is the water in the poem, "In Cabin'd Ships at Sea," as it moves around the boat?
(a) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) Gray.
(d) Black.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What will Whitman plant as thick as trees along all the rivers of America and along the shores of all the great lakes?

2. Who asks Whitman to sing a song that no poet has yet to have chanted?

3. Whitman says that he sings the songs of the glory of ___________, not God.

4. "You furnish your parts toward eternity, Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the ________."

5. The __________ has joy in inflating the chest, rolling the thunder of the voice, making the people rage, and leading America.

(see the answer key)

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