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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 26-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At the time of freedom, the soul can emerge fully and ponder the _________ one loves best.
(a) Themes.
(b) Animals.
(c) Silence.
(d) Truth.

3. Who does Whitman want to kiss him, to touch him on the lips as he touches those he loves?
(a) His mother.
(b) A wave.
(c) His lover.
(d) Paumanok.

4. Who is sultry with perfumes, with ample and flowing garments, florid with blood, hot with passion?
(a) Mistress.
(b) Creatrix.
(c) Mother Earth.
(d) Originatress.

5. The metaphor of __________ is used in relation to the plowman, tilling to life, while the harvester harvests in the end.
(a) Regeneration.
(b) Cycles.
(c) Birth.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whitman believes himself to be as trustful to his poems as a father is to his _______________.

3. Whitman calls the ostent evanescent the substances of a/an _________ mood or savan's studies long.

4. What causes the soldiers to fall into step and to arm themselves?

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

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