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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Whitman say that is is close with, murmuring alike reproachfully rolling sands and drift?
(a) Children.
(b) Forests.
(c) Rivers.
(d) Oceans.

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

3. "Carry me when you go forth over land or sea; For thus merely ______________ you is enough, is best."
(a) Breathing.
(b) Feeling.
(c) Knowing.
(d) Touching.

4. Whitman says that he is not sure, but the high soul of lovers welcomes _______ most.
(a) Lust.
(b) Desire.
(c) Death.
(d) Truth.

5. What does Whitman beckon to sound clearer in and through the atmosphere?
(a) Poems.
(b) Throat.
(c) Birds.
(d) Eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman addresses the reader in "To You," telling the reader he fears they are walking the walks of _____________.

2. What does Whitman say was the year of struggle, the year when no dainty rhymes or sentimental loves verses were written?

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

4. What will Whitman plant as thick as trees along all the rivers of America and along the shores of all the great lakes?

5. Where did Whitman say that he sat studying the older times of American? The feet of ___________.

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