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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 calls the ostent evanescent the substances of a/an _________ mood or savan's studies long.
(a) Woman's.
(b) Child's.
(c) Artist's.
(d) Scientist's.

2. During this section of the poems, what age does Whitman profess to being?
(a) 41.
(b) 35.
(c) 37.
(d) 42.

3. Who does Whitman say that is is close with, murmuring alike reproachfully rolling sands and drift?
(a) Forests.
(b) Rivers.
(c) Oceans.
(d) Children.

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

5. Whitman ponders where he actually knows anything of his own ________ as he thinks about the biography of another.
(a) Needs.
(b) Message.
(c) History.
(d) Life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is sultry with perfumes, with ample and flowing garments, florid with blood, hot with passion?

2. Whitman points out that it is not on the reader that they alone have ___________ which fall on them

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

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

5. To what state does Whitman promise to know very well after traveling to it?

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