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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whitman asks in his poems who may have learned the ______________ of the lessons that he has to teach.
(a) Completeness.
(b) Details.
(c) Broadness.
(d) Truth.

2. Who does Whitman describe as sitting in the middle of the prison and causing a scene?
(a) A mystic.
(b) A priest.
(c) A woman singer.
(d) A child.

3. What is permanent, lurking there within the body, the only purport of thous art, the real I myself?
(a) Head.
(b) Brain.
(c) Body.
(d) Spirit.

4. Whitman hears that some people believe that he is trying to destroy ____________, which confuses him.
(a) Libraries.
(b) Schools.
(c) Institutions.
(d) Churches.

5. Whitman says that he often looks up at the perfect __________ of the stars during walks in the night.
(a) Glow.
(b) Honor.
(c) Truth.
(d) Silence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Whitman say there are beautiful hills which should be recognized as such?

2. What causes Whitman to wander noiselessly and to bend over other sleepers, wandering and confused?

3. Whitman expresses that he knows the __________ does not know how longingly he looked at them.

4. Who does Whitman describe as being lean and sinewy with muscular legs, thinly clothed, and well trained?

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

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