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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 addresses other countries who are striving to prove the puzzle of America, the athletic ______________.
(a) Ambition.
(b) Grasses.
(c) Constitution.
(d) Democracy.

2. The __________ has joy in inflating the chest, rolling the thunder of the voice, making the people rage, and leading America.
(a) Congressman.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Orator.
(d) President.

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

4. What will Whitman plant as thick as trees along all the rivers of America and along the shores of all the great lakes?
(a) Companionship.
(b) Shrubs.
(c) Honor.
(d) Patriotism.

5. What is described as never tiring, as being rude, silent, and incomprehensible at first?
(a) Earth.
(b) Love.
(c) Faith.
(d) Moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state did Whitman see the live-oak growing, and named a poem after this occurrence?

2. What shape is Paumanok, according to the way that Whitman describes it in his poetry?

3. The child and her father are looking in the _____ at the autumn skin in "On the Beach at Night."

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

5. Underneath all of the mysticism, what does Whitman say that he sees in the man for his comrade?

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