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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who leaves natural breaths, the sounds of rains and winds, calls as the birds and animals in the woods?
(a) The Gods.
(b) The birds.
(c) The mothers.
(d) Red aborigines.

2. What carry the filaments of the news of wars, deaths, losses, gains, passions, and of race?
(a) Telegraphs.
(b) Phones.
(c) Breezes.
(d) Pigeons.

3. Whitman believes that all heroic deeds were conceived in __________, as are all free poems.
(a) The soul.
(b) God's hand.
(c) Church.
(d) The open air.

4. What did Whitman used to pull up from the water when he lived in his hometown during the summer months?
(a) Fish traps.
(b) Lobster pots.
(c) Netting.
(d) Seaweed.

5. Whitman realizes he was still not happen when he heard _________ and was received well at the capitol.
(a) His poem.
(b) Silence.
(c) His voice.
(d) His name.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman wonders how the real _______ can ever die and be buried in the end?

2. What is forever and ever, longer than soil is brown and solid, longer than water ebbs and flows?

3. Who does Whitman see eating the bread of his last supper in the midst of youths and old persons?

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

5. Whitman is not only considering the idea of death, but also of chanting the chant of ___________.

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