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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whitman calls the ostent evanescent the substances of a/an _________ mood or savan's studies long.
(a) Artist's.
(b) Child's.
(c) Woman's.
(d) Scientist's.

2. Which sort of bird caused Whitman to stop and open listen to it opening its throat and joyfully singing?
(a) He-bird.
(b) She-bird.
(c) Song dove.
(d) Robin.

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

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

5. It is the engineer's joy to go with the _____________ in his days.
(a) Track.
(b) Coal.
(c) Cars.
(d) Locomotive.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Whitman answer for when he takes the young man's hands in his own?

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

4. Whitman believes that the words of true ________ do not merely please those who read them.

5. During this section of the poems, what age does Whitman profess to being?

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