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

2. Whitman believes himself to be as trustful to his poems as a father is to his _______________.
(a) Children.
(b) Wife.
(c) Family.
(d) Home.

3. What causes the soldiers to fall into step and to arm themselves?
(a) Drum taps.
(b) Drill sergeants.
(c) Enemies.
(d) Guns.

4. Who is singing the song, a husky song as the main character in the poem walks on the beach at night alone?
(a) Father.
(b) Mother.
(c) Sister.
(d) Brother.

5. What are houses and rooms full of? What are shelves crowded with according to Whitman?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Perfumes.
(c) Truth.
(d) Deceit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the lovers who exit the room after the night leave over baskets, swelling the house with their plenty?

2. To whom is Whitman referring when he talks about the estuary which enlarges and spread itself grandly in the great sea?

3. Whitman finds he is larger and better than he thought. He did not know he held so much ___________.

4. What does Whitman say was the year of struggle, the year when no dainty rhymes or sentimental loves verses were written?

5. Whitman says that he was offering too long to feed his soul with __________, which was clearly not a good idea..

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