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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) Brain.
(b) Head.
(c) Spirit.
(d) Body.

2. Whitman calls the ostent evanescent the substances of a/an _________ mood or savan's studies long.
(a) Scientist's.
(b) Woman's.
(c) Child's.
(d) Artist's.

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

4. Whitman says he will make a true ________ which will earn for the body and mind whatever sticks and does not droop in death.
(a) Book.
(b) Poem.
(c) Belief.
(d) Song.

5. Who does Whitman not want to shut their proud doors to him, as stated in a poem of that same idea?
(a) Libraries.
(b) Churches.
(c) Armies.
(d) Schools.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who does Whitman consider to be dear and dreadful to the earth, as he writes in one of his poems?

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

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

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