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

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

3. Whose self does Whitman sing when he begins his collection of poems in this particular book?
(a) Him.
(b) One's.
(c) Those.
(d) Her.

4. Whitman says it is a painful thing to ___________ someone to excess, yet the rewards are great.
(a) Believe in.
(b) Love.
(c) Hate.
(d) Honor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Once a state is fully enslaved, according to Whitman, no nation, state, city, of the Earth can resume its ____________.

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

3. What has been named with can not be countermanded in struggles and in wars?

4. What sort of song does Whitman say he will sing in the sixth inscription of the book's opening?

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

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