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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With another man, Whitman writes, he dilates and fuses the immortal laws and makes himself by them the _______ unto himself.
(a) Honor.
(b) Love.
(c) Law.
(d) Truth.

2. What is forever and ever, longer than soil is brown and solid, longer than water ebbs and flows?
(a) Soul.
(b) Family.
(c) Religion.
(d) Faith.

3. Whitman says it is a painful thing to ___________ someone to excess, yet the rewards are great.
(a) Honor.
(b) Believe in.
(c) Love.
(d) Hate.

4. Who does Whitman want to kiss him, to touch him on the lips as he touches those he loves?
(a) A wave.
(b) Paumanok.
(c) His lover.
(d) His mother.

5. At what time of the day is the soul allowed to be most free, according to Whitman in his own findings?
(a) Dusk.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Dawn.
(d) Noon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Whitman stop in order to satisfy his curiosity about what is inside?

2. The United States is seen as ________ with equality in the eyes of their mother, according to Whitman.

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

4. From Whitman's breast, he says that he has concealed confession drops. What color are these drops?

5. Who is sultry with perfumes, with ample and flowing garments, florid with blood, hot with passion?

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