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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 37-40.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where is the good place in Boston where Whitman wants to see the show from in the morning?
(a) At the diner.
(b) At the corner.
(c) At the docks.
(d) At the church.

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

5. "You furnish your parts toward eternity, Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the ________."
(a) Truth.
(b) Answer.
(c) End.
(d) Soul.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman believes that the election process is the most __________ scene in the Western world.

2. With another man, Whitman writes, he dilates and fuses the immortal laws and makes himself by them the _______ unto himself.

3. What are the terrible perturbations of the suns, swelling, collapsing, and ending?

4. Which is the ancient country which Whitman seems to think is progressing into the future, much in the same way as America?

5. Whitman believes there is terrible doubt in _____________, there is uncertainty and the possibility of being deluded.

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