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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is permanent, lurking there within the body, the only purport of thous art, the real I myself?
(a) Head.
(b) Brain.
(c) Body.
(d) Spirit.

2. From Whitman's breast, he says that he has concealed confession drops. What color are these drops?
(a) Clear.
(b) Green.
(c) Red.
(d) Blue.

3. What is described as never tiring, as being rude, silent, and incomprehensible at first?
(a) Faith.
(b) Moon.
(c) Love.
(d) Earth.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman says he will make a true ________ which will earn for the body and mind whatever sticks and does not droop in death.

2. Underneath all of the mysticism, what does Whitman say that he sees in the man for his comrade?

3. Whitman believes there is terrible doubt in _____________, there is uncertainty and the possibility of being deluded.

4. Whitman finds he is larger and better than he thought. He did not know he held so much ___________.

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

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