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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) Married couples.
(b) Bodies on battlefields.
(c) A child in its mother's arms.
(d) A gay couple.

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

3. _________ has an abundance of color diversity, fullness, and form, according to Whitman.
(a) Language.
(b) Nature.
(c) Song.
(d) Poetry.

4. Whitman raises a _____________ hand to all who he mentions in his poem, making the signal to remain after him.
(a) Closed.
(b) Shaking.
(c) Perpendicular.
(d) Open.

5. Even those, Whitman says, that know unrequited ________ can sleep, as do prisoners.
(a) Patience.
(b) Death.
(c) Loss.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. The child and her father are looking in the _____ at the autumn skin in "On the Beach at Night."

2. As people walk down the street, their ________ convey more than their words ever could, according to Whitman.

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

4. The metaphor of __________ is used in relation to the plowman, tilling to life, while the harvester harvests in the end.

5. What will Whitman plant as thick as trees along all the rivers of America and along the shores of all the great lakes?

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