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

2. Where does Whitman say there are beautiful hills which should be recognized as such?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Amsterdam.
(d) Maine.

3. What are the terrible perturbations of the suns, swelling, collapsing, and ending?
(a) Planets.
(b) Clouds.
(c) Moons.
(d) Stars.

4. Underneath all of the mysticism, what does Whitman say that he sees in the man for his comrade?
(a) Hope.
(b) Strength.
(c) Honor.
(d) Love.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose self does Whitman sing when he begins his collection of poems in this particular book?

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

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

4. To what does Whitman say he is near at hand with a throat to inflate itself and sing joyfully?

5. Whitman believes that all heroic deeds were conceived in __________, as are all free poems.

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