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

2. Whitman believes there is terrible doubt in _____________, there is uncertainty and the possibility of being deluded.
(a) Appearances.
(b) Government.
(c) Nature.
(d) Children.

3. Whitman expresses that he knows the __________ does not know how longingly he looked at them.
(a) Woman.
(b) Blade of grass.
(c) Passing stranger.
(d) Old woman.

4. What is flying aloft as the ship begins to go out into the sea in "The Ship Starting"?
(a) Hands.
(b) Ribbons.
(c) Hopes.
(d) Pennants.

5. Whitman says that he was offering too long to feed his soul with __________, which was clearly not a good idea..
(a) Questions.
(b) Standards.
(c) Truths.
(d) Answers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Whitman say goes to and fro, seeking a livelihood, chattering, and chaffering?

2. What will Whitman plant as thick as trees along all the rivers of America and along the shores of all the great lakes?

3. The __________ has joy in inflating the chest, rolling the thunder of the voice, making the people rage, and leading America.

4. Whitman points out that it is not on the reader that they alone have ___________ which fall on them

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

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