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

2. What shape is Paumanok, according to the way that Whitman describes it in his poetry?
(a) Bean.
(b) Fish.
(c) Square.
(d) Spiral.

3. Who does Whitman not want to shut their proud doors to him, as stated in a poem of that same idea?
(a) Schools.
(b) Churches.
(c) Armies.
(d) Libraries.

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

5. Whitman says he will make a true ________ which will earn for the body and mind whatever sticks and does not droop in death.
(a) Book.
(b) Song.
(c) Poem.
(d) Belief.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman proposes that grass is the ___________ of the Lord, when he contemplates it as a child.

2. What color is the water in the poem, "In Cabin'd Ships at Sea," as it moves around the boat?

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

4. What rose before Whitman when he was pondering his poetry in silence in this book?

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

(see the answer key)

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