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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 5-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Walt Whitman sees _______ exhaling from unexplored countries and savage types with bows and arrows.
(a) Stories.
(b) Vapors.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Myths.

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

4. What are houses and rooms full of? What are shelves crowded with according to Whitman?
(a) Perfumes.
(b) Deceit.
(c) Truth.
(d) Beauty.

5. Whitman points out that it is not on the reader that they alone have ___________ which fall on them
(a) Anger.
(b) Dark patches.
(c) Trust.
(d) Pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of song does Whitman say he will sing in the sixth inscription of the book's opening?

2. What shape is Paumanok, according to the way that Whitman describes it in his poetry?

3. What color is the water in the poem, "In Cabin'd Ships at Sea," as it moves around the boat?

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

5. How does Whitman spell Canada when he uses the name in the poem, "On Journeys through the States"?

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