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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 shape is Paumanok, according to the way that Whitman describes it in his poetry?
(a) Bean.
(b) Spiral.
(c) Fish.
(d) Square.

2. What carry the filaments of the news of wars, deaths, losses, gains, passions, and of race?
(a) Telegraphs.
(b) Phones.
(c) Pigeons.
(d) Breezes.

3. The United States is seen as ________ with equality in the eyes of their mother, according to Whitman.
(a) Children.
(b) Cubs.
(c) Eagles.
(d) Partners.

4. Who asks Whitman to sing a song that no poet has yet to have chanted?
(a) God.
(b) The grass.
(c) A flower.
(d) Muse.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is flying aloft as the ship begins to go out into the sea in "The Ship Starting"?

2. What was Whitman's voice like when he sang late in the night, according to his writing?

3. What is the title of the poem which begins "forms, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts...."?

4. Whitman hears that some people believe that he is trying to destroy ____________, which confuses him.

5. Even those, Whitman says, that know unrequited ________ can sleep, as do prisoners.

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