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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 do the lovers who exit the room after the night leave over baskets, swelling the house with their plenty?
(a) Money.
(b) White towels.
(c) Birds.
(d) Words.

2. The ___________ cheerfully braves the winter, says Whitman when he addresses this group, the snow and ice welcoming him.
(a) Canadian.
(b) Alaskan.
(c) Delawarean.
(d) Kanadian.

3. Whitman believes himself to be as trustful to his poems as a father is to his _______________.
(a) Family.
(b) Children.
(c) Home.
(d) Wife.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are houses and rooms full of? What are shelves crowded with according to Whitman?

2. Which sort of bird caused Whitman to stop and open listen to it opening its throat and joyfully singing?

3. Whitman is not only considering the idea of death, but also of chanting the chant of ___________.

4. To what does Whitman say he is near at hand with a throat to inflate itself and sing joyfully?

5. What is permanent, lurking there within the body, the only purport of thous art, the real I myself?

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