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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 does Whitman beckon to sound clearer in and through the atmosphere?
(a) Poems.
(b) Eyes.
(c) Throat.
(d) Birds.

2. What rose before Whitman when he was pondering his poetry in silence in this book?
(a) Phantom.
(b) Water.
(c) Sun.
(d) Grass.

3. Who does Whitman say the person in the poem "Europe" was paid to do?
(a) Leave the land untouched.
(b) Write the poems.
(c) Defile the People.
(d) Cross the water.

4. Whitman addresses the reader in "To You," telling the reader he fears they are walking the walks of _____________.
(a) Clouds.
(b) Armies.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Pain.

5. Who is the man that Whitman describes as being very cute, a man who is a made man from this day?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Jonathan.
(c) Bill.
(d) George.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Whitman see eating the bread of his last supper in the midst of youths and old persons?

2. Once a state is fully enslaved, according to Whitman, no nation, state, city, of the Earth can resume its ____________.

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

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

5. Whitman says he will make a true ________ which will earn for the body and mind whatever sticks and does not droop in death.

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