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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 is permanent, lurking there within the body, the only purport of thous art, the real I myself?
(a) Spirit.
(b) Head.
(c) Body.
(d) Brain.

2. Where did Whitman say that he sat studying the older times of American? The feet of ___________.
(a) Jesus.
(b) The great masters.
(c) Mary.
(d) God.

3. Whitman wonders how the real _______ can ever die and be buried in the end?
(a) Word.
(b) Person.
(c) Book.
(d) Body.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Once a state is fully enslaved, according to Whitman, no nation, state, city, of the Earth can resume its ____________.

2. Who leaves natural breaths, the sounds of rains and winds, calls as the birds and animals in the woods?

3. How does Whitman spell Canada when he uses the name in the poem, "On Journeys through the States"?

4. How old is Whitman at the time of his writing his poems, noting this in his poems and that he is in good health?

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

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