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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 do the lovers who exit the room after the night leave over baskets, swelling the house with their plenty?
(a) White towels.
(b) Words.
(c) Money.
(d) Birds.

2. During this section of the poems, what age does Whitman profess to being?
(a) 42.
(b) 35.
(c) 41.
(d) 37.

3. Whitman ponders where he actually knows anything of his own ________ as he thinks about the biography of another.
(a) History.
(b) Needs.
(c) Life.
(d) Message.

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

5. What kind of headsman stands mask'd, clothed in red, with huge legs and strong naked arms?
(a) American.
(b) European.
(c) Australian.
(d) Asian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman says it is a painful thing to ___________ someone to excess, yet the rewards are great.

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

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

4. What does Whitman say goes to and fro, seeking a livelihood, chattering, and chaffering?

5. Whitman wonders how the real _______ can ever die and be buried in the end?

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