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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Whitman profess to folding in every leaf of his poetry in order to celebrate the sea?
(a) Sea serpents.
(b) Mariners.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Poets.

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

3. What do the lovers who exit the room after the night leave over baskets, swelling the house with their plenty?
(a) Words.
(b) Money.
(c) Birds.
(d) White towels.

4. Whitman believes himself to be as trustful to his poems as a father is to his _______________.
(a) Home.
(b) Family.
(c) Children.
(d) Wife.

5. Whitman proposes that grass is the ___________ of the Lord, when he contemplates it as a child.
(a) Blanket.
(b) Food.
(c) Cup.
(d) Handkerchief.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose self does Whitman sing when he begins his collection of poems in this particular book?

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

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

4. Whitman says it is a painful thing to ___________ someone to excess, yet the rewards are great.

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

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