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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 is singing the varied carols which Whitman can hear as mentioned in a poem which reveals the answer?
(a) America.
(b) Criminals.
(c) Men.
(d) Canada.

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

3. The ___________ cheerfully braves the winter, says Whitman when he addresses this group, the snow and ice welcoming him.
(a) Delawarean.
(b) Canadian.
(c) Alaskan.
(d) Kanadian.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are houses and rooms full of? What are shelves crowded with according to Whitman?

2. It is the engineer's joy to go with the _____________ in his days.

3. Whitman realizes he was still not happen when he heard _________ and was received well at the capitol.

4. "Carry me when you go forth over land or sea; For thus merely ______________ you is enough, is best."

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

(see the answer key)

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