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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 includes a series of poems which pertain to forms of education from questions posed to _______ to tests and judgement.
(a) Students.
(b) Principals.
(c) Senators.
(d) Teachers.

2. What did the seminal warrior die of after his surrender, according to Whitman's poem?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Infection.
(c) Anger.
(d) Broken heart.

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

4. Whitman proposes that grass is the ___________ of the Lord, when he contemplates it as a child.
(a) Handkerchief.
(b) Cup.
(c) Blanket.
(d) Food.

5. The metaphor of __________ is used in relation to the plowman, tilling to life, while the harvester harvests in the end.
(a) Regeneration.
(b) Birth.
(c) Death.
(d) Cycles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What carry the filaments of the news of wars, deaths, losses, gains, passions, and of race?

2. For what time of the year does Whitman write a warble, in the form of a poem for in the "Autumn Rivulets" section?

3. What is NOT a word which is used to describe the poets Whitman says are still to come in the world?

4. Who does Whitman answer for when he takes the young man's hands in his own?

5. What is one of the things which keeps Whitman up late at night, though he needs no assurances?

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