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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who leaves natural breaths, the sounds of rains and winds, calls as the birds and animals in the woods?
(a) The birds.
(b) The Gods.
(c) The mothers.
(d) Red aborigines.

2. What color is the water in the poem, "In Cabin'd Ships at Sea," as it moves around the boat?
(a) Gray.
(b) Black.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

3. Whitman is not only considering the idea of death, but also of chanting the chant of ___________.
(a) Battles.
(b) Allegiance.
(c) Honor.
(d) Truth.

4. Once a state is fully enslaved, according to Whitman, no nation, state, city, of the Earth can resume its ____________.
(a) Victory.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Liberty.
(d) Power.

5. With another man, Whitman writes, he dilates and fuses the immortal laws and makes himself by them the _______ unto himself.
(a) Love.
(b) Honor.
(c) Truth.
(d) Law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the lovers who exit the room after the night leave over baskets, swelling the house with their plenty?

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

3. What shape is Paumanok, according to the way that Whitman describes it in his poetry?

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

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

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