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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Whitman believes that in his journey, the _________ is not the only thing that is there.
(a) Nature.
(b) Road.
(c) Honor.
(d) Trees.

4. Whitman raises a _____________ hand to all who he mentions in his poem, making the signal to remain after him.
(a) Open.
(b) Perpendicular.
(c) Closed.
(d) Shaking.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what does Whitman say he is near at hand with a throat to inflate itself and sing joyfully?

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

4. To what state does Whitman promise to know very well after traveling to it?

5. Whitman calls the ostent evanescent the substances of a/an _________ mood or savan's studies long.

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