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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 raises a _____________ hand to all who he mentions in his poem, making the signal to remain after him.
(a) Closed.
(b) Open.
(c) Shaking.
(d) Perpendicular.

2. What is the powerful machine which is moving through the snow with its vapor-pennants tinged with delicate purple?
(a) Locomotive.
(b) Car.
(c) Wagon.
(d) Steam engine.

3. What does Whitman say was the year of struggle, the year when no dainty rhymes or sentimental loves verses were written?
(a) 1821.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1841.
(d) 1851.

4. What was Whitman's voice like when he sang late in the night, according to his writing?
(a) Low.
(b) Sad.
(c) Joyful.
(d) Whispered.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is forever and ever, longer than soil is brown and solid, longer than water ebbs and flows?

2. Whitman ponders where he actually knows anything of his own ________ as he thinks about the biography of another.

3. What will return as the ocean of life begins to ebb away from the shore, according to Whitman?

4. The ___________ cheerfully braves the winter, says Whitman when he addresses this group, the snow and ice welcoming him.

5. What does Whitman say that he will expose when he runs his furrow with his plough and press his spade through the sod?

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