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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Whitman at the time of his writing his poems, noting this in his poems and that he is in good health?
(a) 27.
(b) 37.
(c) 18.
(d) 28.

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

3. From Whitman's breast, he says that he has concealed confession drops. What color are these drops?
(a) Green.
(b) Clear.
(c) Red.
(d) Blue.

4. What is forever and ever, longer than soil is brown and solid, longer than water ebbs and flows?
(a) Faith.
(b) Soul.
(c) Religion.
(d) Family.

5. What are houses and rooms full of? What are shelves crowded with according to Whitman?
(a) Perfumes.
(b) Truth.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Deceit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Whitman meet in the poem, "Eidolons," passing the hues and objects of the world?

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

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

4. Who does Whitman consider to be dear and dreadful to the earth, as he writes in one of his poems?

5. What is permanent, lurking there within the body, the only purport of thous art, the real I myself?

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