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

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

3. Who does Whitman meet in the poem, "Eidolons," passing the hues and objects of the world?
(a) Servant.
(b) Child.
(c) Horse.
(d) Seer.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is singing the varied carols which Whitman can hear as mentioned in a poem which reveals the answer?

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

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

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

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

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