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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Whitman say that is is close with, murmuring alike reproachfully rolling sands and drift?
(a) Rivers.
(b) Oceans.
(c) Forests.
(d) Children.

2. What is permanent, lurking there within the body, the only purport of thous art, the real I myself?
(a) Brain.
(b) Spirit.
(c) Body.
(d) Head.

3. Whitman says that the expression of __________ is important but there is also great value in silence.
(a) Speech.
(b) Tears.
(c) Song.
(d) Chant.

4. Walt Whitman hears the rhythmic myths of the ____________, the strong legends of the Romans.
(a) Greeks.
(b) Germans.
(c) Norse.
(d) Egyptians.

5. Whitman says that he was offering too long to feed his soul with __________, which was clearly not a good idea..
(a) Questions.
(b) Answers.
(c) Standards.
(d) Truths.

Short Answer Questions

1. During this section of the poems, what age does Whitman profess to being?

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

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

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

5. What did the seminal warrior die of after his surrender, according to Whitman's poem?

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