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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is forever and ever, longer than soil is brown and solid, longer than water ebbs and flows?
(a) Family.
(b) Religion.
(c) Faith.
(d) Soul.

3. How does Whitman spell Canada when he uses the name in the poem, "On Journeys through the States"?
(a) Kanuda.
(b) Kunada.
(c) Kanada.
(d) Canada.

4. What is NOT a word which is used to describe the poets Whitman says are still to come in the world?
(a) Continental.
(b) Honest.
(c) Athletic.
(d) Native.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman ponders where he actually knows anything of his own ________ as he thinks about the biography of another.

2. Who does Whitman meet in the poem, "Eidolons," passing the hues and objects of the world?

3. Who does Whitman consider to be dear and dreadful to the earth, as he writes in one of his poems?

4. Whitman says he will make a true ________ which will earn for the body and mind whatever sticks and does not droop in death.

5. The ___________ cheerfully braves the winter, says Whitman when he addresses this group, the snow and ice welcoming him.

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