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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will return as the ocean of life begins to ebb away from the shore, according to Whitman?
(a) Light
(b) Green.
(c) Flow.
(d) Sand.

2. Whitman calls the ostent evanescent the substances of a/an _________ mood or savan's studies long.
(a) Artist's.
(b) Child's.
(c) Scientist's.
(d) Woman's.

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

4. Whitman believes that all heroic deeds were conceived in __________, as are all free poems.
(a) The soul.
(b) God's hand.
(c) The open air.
(d) Church.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman says he will make a true ________ which will earn for the body and mind whatever sticks and does not droop in death.

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

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

4. Who does Whitman answer for when he takes the young man's hands in his own?

5. What is the title of the poem which begins "forms, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts...."?

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