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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 is the title of the poem which begins "forms, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts...."?
(a) Notions.
(b) Germs.
(c) Ideas.
(d) Truths.

2. Who does Whitman say that is is close with, murmuring alike reproachfully rolling sands and drift?
(a) Forests.
(b) Oceans.
(c) Rivers.
(d) Children.

3. Who does Whitman describe as being lean and sinewy with muscular legs, thinly clothed, and well trained?
(a) Runner.
(b) Teacher.
(c) President.
(d) Pioneer.

4. To what does Whitman say he is near at hand with a throat to inflate itself and sing joyfully?
(a) Ocean.
(b) Nature.
(c) Honor.
(d) Democracy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman believes that the words of true ________ do not merely please those who read them.

2. Whitman realizes he was still not happen when he heard _________ and was received well at the capitol.

3. "Carry me when you go forth over land or sea; For thus merely ______________ you is enough, is best."

4. What does Whitman say that Ireland once was before she leaned and became tattered on the ground?

5. Whitman proposes that grass is the ___________ of the Lord, when he contemplates it as a child.

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