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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What shape is Paumanok, according to the way that Whitman describes it in his poetry?
(a) Square.
(b) Spiral.
(c) Bean.
(d) Fish.

3. To what does Whitman say he is near at hand with a throat to inflate itself and sing joyfully?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Honor.
(c) Nature.
(d) Ocean.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What rose before Whitman when he was pondering his poetry in silence in this book?

2. What sort of song does Whitman say he will sing in the sixth inscription of the book's opening?

3. The ___________ is equal with the male according to Whitman in the first page of his poetry book?

4. What color is the water in the poem, "In Cabin'd Ships at Sea," as it moves around the boat?

5. Whitman calls the ostent evanescent the substances of a/an _________ mood or savan's studies long.

(see the answer key)

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