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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) Gray.
(d) Green.

2. The ___________ is equal with the male according to Whitman in the first page of his poetry book?
(a) Tree.
(b) River.
(c) Female.
(d) Country.

3. Whitman addresses other countries who are striving to prove the puzzle of America, the athletic ______________.
(a) Constitution.
(b) Ambition.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Grasses.

4. Who does Whitman consider to be dear and dreadful to the earth, as he writes in one of his poems?
(a) Women.
(b) Sages.
(c) Beginners.
(d) Truth tellers.

5. What is forever and ever, longer than soil is brown and solid, longer than water ebbs and flows?
(a) Family.
(b) Religion.
(c) Faith.
(d) Soul.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Whitman not want to shut their proud doors to him, as stated in a poem of that same idea?

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

3. With another man, Whitman writes, he dilates and fuses the immortal laws and makes himself by them the _______ unto himself.

4. Whitman proposes that grass is the ___________ of the Lord, when he contemplates it as a child.

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

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