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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is the ancient country which Whitman seems to think is progressing into the future, much in the same way as America?
(a) Japan.
(b) Somalia.
(c) India.
(d) China.

2. What is NOT a word which is used to describe the poets Whitman says are still to come in the world?
(a) Continental.
(b) Honest.
(c) Native.
(d) Athletic.

3. Who does Whitman answer for when he takes the young man's hands in his own?
(a) God.
(b) His brother.
(c) His sister.
(d) His mother.

4. Where does Whitman say there are beautiful hills which should be recognized as such?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Amsterdam.
(d) Maine.

5. When the child went forth, what happened to him every day? He became the ____________ he looked at.
(a) First thought.
(b) First animal.
(c) First object.
(d) First tear.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman appears to have some sort of connection to _________ and to prostitutes, trying to understand them.

2. "And there is ______ to us of all that has ever come of races and days, or ever will come."

3. At the time of freedom, the soul can emerge fully and ponder the _________ one loves best.

4. What are NOT one of the images of people who sleep well, which Whitman includes in his poems for comparison?

5. Whitman points out that it is not on the reader that they alone have ___________ which fall on them

(see the answer key)

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