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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 rose before Whitman when he was pondering his poetry in silence in this book?
(a) Sun.
(b) Water.
(c) Phantom.
(d) Grass.

2. Which sort of bird caused Whitman to stop and open listen to it opening its throat and joyfully singing?
(a) Song dove.
(b) Robin.
(c) She-bird.
(d) He-bird.

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

4. What sort of song does Whitman say he will sing in the sixth inscription of the book's opening?
(a) Companionship.
(b) Patriotism.
(c) Truth.
(d) Leaves.

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

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. Whitman believes himself to be as trustful to his poems as a father is to his _______________.

3. What is permanent, lurking there within the body, the only purport of thous art, the real I myself?

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

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

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