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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whitman says that not a disembodied _________ can the weapons of tyrants let loose, but it stalks invisibly.
(a) Song.
(b) Truth.
(c) Poem.
(d) Spirit.

2. What does Whitman say goes to and fro, seeking a livelihood, chattering, and chaffering?
(a) A worker.
(b) Soul.
(c) His muse.
(d) Shadow.

3. What is the title of the poem which begins "forms, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts...."?
(a) Ideas.
(b) Germs.
(c) Truths.
(d) Notions.

4. 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) 37.
(b) 18.
(c) 28.
(d) 27.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who asks Whitman to sing a song that no poet has yet to have chanted?

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

4. To whom is Whitman referring when he talks about the estuary which enlarges and spread itself grandly in the great sea?

5. Once a state is fully enslaved, according to Whitman, no nation, state, city, of the Earth can resume its ____________.

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