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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 5-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The ___________ is equal with the male according to Whitman in the first page of his poetry book?
(a) River.
(b) Country.
(c) Tree.
(d) Female.

4. Walt Whitman hears the rhythmic myths of the ____________, the strong legends of the Romans.
(a) Norse.
(b) Greeks.
(c) Egyptians.
(d) Germans.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Whitman once feel was impassive, ample, and spheric in nature, though he is changing his mind?

2. Where did Whitman say that he sat studying the older times of American? The feet of ___________.

3. What is NOT a word which is used to describe the poets Whitman says are still to come in the world?

4. Walt Whitman sees _______ exhaling from unexplored countries and savage types with bows and arrows.

5. Who does Whitman see eating the bread of his last supper in the midst of youths and old persons?

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