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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 kind of headsman stands mask'd, clothed in red, with huge legs and strong naked arms?
(a) American.
(b) European.
(c) Asian.
(d) Australian.

2. Whitman points out that it is not on the reader that they alone have ___________ which fall on them
(a) Anger.
(b) Pain.
(c) Dark patches.
(d) Trust.

3. 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) Honor.
(c) Companionship.
(d) Patriotism.

4. Whitman proposes that grass is the ___________ of the Lord, when he contemplates it as a child.
(a) Food.
(b) Handkerchief.
(c) Blanket.
(d) Cup.

5. What are the terrible perturbations of the suns, swelling, collapsing, and ending?
(a) Stars.
(b) Clouds.
(c) Planets.
(d) Moons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman says it is a painful thing to ___________ someone to excess, yet the rewards are great.

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

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

4. Whitman says that he is not sure, but the high soul of lovers welcomes _______ most.

5. It is the engineer's joy to go with the _____________ in his days.

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