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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 are NOT one of the images of people who sleep well, which Whitman includes in his poems for comparison?
(a) A child in its mother's arms.
(b) Married couples.
(c) A gay couple.
(d) Bodies on battlefields.

2. Those who are considered to be ________ should be able to share their ideas and their stories, according to Whitman.
(a) Children.
(b) Too old.
(c) Fools.
(d) Uneducated.

3. Whitman asks in his poems who may have learned the ______________ of the lessons that he has to teach.
(a) Truth.
(b) Completeness.
(c) Broadness.
(d) Details.

4. Whitman says that anyone who does not carry his poems should be ______________.
(a) Assassinated.
(b) Mourned.
(c) Cremated.
(d) Celebrated.

5. From the sea of ________, Whitman says that he will collect and bring a windrow drift of weeds and shells.
(a) Belief.
(b) Patriotism.
(c) Time.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of birds fly together, interlocking their claws and beating their wings as one in the poem Whitman includes?

2. What is forever and ever, longer than soil is brown and solid, longer than water ebbs and flows?

3. Whitman refers to America as the continent of _________ of the triumph of freedom and of democracies.

4. What color is the halo in the sky, drooping upon the sea in the description of the water?

5. Whitman is clear that he is giving his spirit to ___________, though he does not mention him by name.

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