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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 does Whitman point out are subordinated at their tasks during "Calamus"?
(a) Men.
(b) No one.
(c) Women.
(d) Children.

2. Who is sultry with perfumes, with ample and flowing garments, florid with blood, hot with passion?
(a) Creatrix.
(b) Mistress.
(c) Mother Earth.
(d) Originatress.

3. The ___________ cheerfully braves the winter, says Whitman when he addresses this group, the snow and ice welcoming him.
(a) Alaskan.
(b) Kanadian.
(c) Delawarean.
(d) Canadian.

4. Whitman proposes that grass is the ___________ of the Lord, when he contemplates it as a child.
(a) Handkerchief.
(b) Food.
(c) Cup.
(d) Blanket.

5. What sort of song does Whitman say he will sing in the sixth inscription of the book's opening?
(a) Truth.
(b) Patriotism.
(c) Companionship.
(d) Leaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Though Whitman says he paints myriads of heads, he also says that he paints head without a ________.

2. Who is singing the song, a husky song as the main character in the poem walks on the beach at night alone?

3. Whitman believes that the words of true ________ do not merely please those who read them.

4. What are the terrible perturbations of the suns, swelling, collapsing, and ending?

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

(see the answer key)

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