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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whitman addresses other countries who are striving to prove the puzzle of America, the athletic ______________.
(a) Ambition.
(b) Grasses.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Constitution.

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

3. What is permanent, lurking there within the body, the only purport of thous art, the real I myself?
(a) Body.
(b) Spirit.
(c) Brain.
(d) Head.

4. The __________ has joy in inflating the chest, rolling the thunder of the voice, making the people rage, and leading America.
(a) Orator.
(b) Congressman.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) President.

5. What did Whitman used to pull up from the water when he lived in his hometown during the summer months?
(a) Lobster pots.
(b) Netting.
(c) Seaweed.
(d) Fish traps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shape is Paumanok, according to the way that Whitman describes it in his poetry?

2. Underneath all of the mysticism, what does Whitman say that he sees in the man for his comrade?

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

4. What rose before Whitman when he was pondering his poetry in silence in this book?

5. Whitman expresses that he knows the __________ does not know how longingly he looked at them.

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