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

2. What is forever and ever, longer than soil is brown and solid, longer than water ebbs and flows?
(a) Family.
(b) Faith.
(c) Religion.
(d) Soul.

3. Who is in the curious trio with Whitman? This trio includes his _________ and his body, and himself.
(a) Gut.
(b) Eyes.
(c) Heart.
(d) Soul.

4. Whitman says it is a painful thing to ___________ someone to excess, yet the rewards are great.
(a) Love.
(b) Hate.
(c) Believe in.
(d) Honor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is singing the varied carols which Whitman can hear as mentioned in a poem which reveals the answer?

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

3. What does Whitman say goes to and fro, seeking a livelihood, chattering, and chaffering?

4. The ___________ is equal with the male according to Whitman in the first page of his poetry book?

5. Whitman addresses the reader in "To You," telling the reader he fears they are walking the walks of _____________.

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