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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 does Whitman beckon to sound clearer in and through the atmosphere?
(a) Poems.
(b) Birds.
(c) Throat.
(d) Eyes.

2. Who is the man that Whitman describes as being very cute, a man who is a made man from this day?
(a) Bill.
(b) George.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Jonathan.

3. What carry the filaments of the news of wars, deaths, losses, gains, passions, and of race?
(a) Telegraphs.
(b) Breezes.
(c) Phones.
(d) Pigeons.

4. "Carry me when you go forth over land or sea; For thus merely ______________ you is enough, is best."
(a) Knowing.
(b) Feeling.
(c) Touching.
(d) Breathing.

5. Once a state is fully enslaved, according to Whitman, no nation, state, city, of the Earth can resume its ____________.
(a) Liberty.
(b) Victory.
(c) Power.
(d) Wealth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman believes that all heroic deeds were conceived in __________, as are all free poems.

2. Where is the good place in Boston where Whitman wants to see the show from in the morning?

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

4. For how many years in Manhattan has Whitman watched the parades of soldiers through the city?

5. What will Whitman plant as thick as trees along all the rivers of America and along the shores of all the great lakes?

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