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

2. To what does Whitman say he is near at hand with a throat to inflate itself and sing joyfully?
(a) Nature.
(b) Ocean.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Honor.

3. It is the engineer's joy to go with the _____________ in his days.
(a) Coal.
(b) Cars.
(c) Locomotive.
(d) Track.

4. What shape is Paumanok, according to the way that Whitman describes it in his poetry?
(a) Square.
(b) Bean.
(c) Spiral.
(d) Fish.

5. How old is Whitman at the time of his writing his poems, noting this in his poems and that he is in good health?
(a) 18.
(b) 27.
(c) 28.
(d) 37.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which sort of bird caused Whitman to stop and open listen to it opening its throat and joyfully singing?

4. Whitman calls the ostent evanescent the substances of a/an _________ mood or savan's studies long.

5. What carry the filaments of the news of wars, deaths, losses, gains, passions, and of race?

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