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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 will Whitman plant as thick as trees along all the rivers of America and along the shores of all the great lakes?
(a) Patriotism.
(b) Shrubs.
(c) Companionship.
(d) Honor.

2. Whitman hears that some people believe that he is trying to destroy ____________, which confuses him.
(a) Libraries.
(b) Institutions.
(c) Schools.
(d) Churches.

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

4. What is flying aloft as the ship begins to go out into the sea in "The Ship Starting"?
(a) Ribbons.
(b) Hands.
(c) Hopes.
(d) Pennants.

5. Whose self does Whitman sing when he begins his collection of poems in this particular book?
(a) One's.
(b) Those.
(c) Him.
(d) Her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman believes that the words of true ________ do not merely please those who read them.

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

3. How does Whitman spell Canada when he uses the name in the poem, "On Journeys through the States"?

4. What did Whitman used to pull up from the water when he lived in his hometown during the summer months?

5. Once a state is fully enslaved, according to Whitman, no nation, state, city, of the Earth can resume its ____________.

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