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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 18-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The child and her father are looking in the _____ at the autumn skin in "On the Beach at Night."
(a) South.
(b) East.
(c) North.
(d) West.

2. Where is the good place in Boston where Whitman wants to see the show from in the morning?
(a) At the diner.
(b) At the church.
(c) At the docks.
(d) At the corner.

3. Who is singing the song, a husky song as the main character in the poem walks on the beach at night alone?
(a) Brother.
(b) Mother.
(c) Father.
(d) Sister.

4. Walt Whitman hears the rhythmic myths of the ____________, the strong legends of the Romans.
(a) Germans.
(b) Greeks.
(c) Egyptians.
(d) Norse.

5. Whitman realizes he was still not happen when he heard _________ and was received well at the capitol.
(a) His voice.
(b) His poem.
(c) Silence.
(d) His name.

Short Answer 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?

2. Whitman believes that all heroic deeds were conceived in __________, as are all free poems.

3. What is flying aloft as the ship begins to go out into the sea in "The Ship Starting"?

4. "Carry me when you go forth over land or sea; For thus merely ______________ you is enough, is best."

5. What kind of headsman stands mask'd, clothed in red, with huge legs and strong naked arms?

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