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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 5-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Whitman profess to folding in every leaf of his poetry in order to celebrate the sea?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Sea serpents.
(c) Mariners.
(d) Poets.

3. What is permanent, lurking there within the body, the only purport of thous art, the real I myself?
(a) Body.
(b) Head.
(c) Brain.
(d) Spirit.

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

5. "You furnish your parts toward eternity, Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the ________."
(a) Answer.
(b) Soul.
(c) End.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state did Whitman see the live-oak growing, and named a poem after this occurrence?

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

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

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

5. Whitman believes that in his journey, the _________ is not the only thing that is there.

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