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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Whitman spell Canada when he uses the name in the poem, "On Journeys through the States"?
(a) Kunada.
(b) Kanada.
(c) Kanuda.
(d) Canada.

2. Whitman wonders how the real _______ can ever die and be buried in the end?
(a) Book.
(b) Person.
(c) Word.
(d) Body.

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

4. With another man, Whitman writes, he dilates and fuses the immortal laws and makes himself by them the _______ unto himself.
(a) Law.
(b) Love.
(c) Truth.
(d) Honor.

5. What will Whitman plant as thick as trees along all the rivers of America and along the shores of all the great lakes?
(a) Shrubs.
(b) Patriotism.
(c) Honor.
(d) Companionship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is described as never tiring, as being rude, silent, and incomprehensible at first?

2. "Carry me when you go forth over land or sea; For thus merely ______________ you is enough, is best."

3. What is flying aloft as the ship begins to go out into the sea in "The Ship Starting"?

4. Whitman proposes that grass is the ___________ of the Lord, when he contemplates it as a child.

5. Who does Whitman profess to folding in every leaf of his poetry in order to celebrate the sea?

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