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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whitman also believes there should be a redistribution of ________ in society and spends many pages explaining why.
(a) Truths.
(b) Colors.
(c) Rules.
(d) Roles.

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

3. Who does Whitman consider to be dear and dreadful to the earth, as he writes in one of his poems?
(a) Truth tellers.
(b) Beginners.
(c) Women.
(d) Sages.

4. Whitman says that one should "nourish a great _____________, a great brain; if I have said anything to the contrary, I hereby retract it."
(a) Honor.
(b) Courage.
(c) Faith.
(d) Intellect.

5. What are houses and rooms full of? What are shelves crowded with according to Whitman?
(a) Deceit.
(b) Truth.
(c) Perfumes.
(d) Beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the city of orgies, according to Whitman's poem of the same name?

2. Whitman says that years of ____________ are transient and strange, though he says he too is one.

3. Whitman says that he was offering too long to feed his soul with __________, which was clearly not a good idea..

4. Whitman believes that America has gone through a series of __________ pains in order to get where it is at the time of writing.

5. Who does Whitman describe as being lean and sinewy with muscular legs, thinly clothed, and well trained?

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