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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 kind of birds fly together, interlocking their claws and beating their wings as one in the poem Whitman includes?
(a) Robins.
(b) Eagles.
(c) Herons.
(d) Pelicans.

2. What does Whitman say that Ireland once was before she leaned and became tattered on the ground?
(a) Goddess.
(b) Queen.
(c) Story.
(d) Ship.

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

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

5. How does Whitman spell Canada when he uses the name in the poem, "On Journeys through the States"?
(a) Kunada.
(b) Canada.
(c) Kanuda.
(d) Kanada.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Whitman say the man is now that he has tears in his face at the sight of the waters?

2. What sort of song does Whitman say he will sing in the sixth inscription of the book's opening?

3. Where is the good place in Boston where Whitman wants to see the show from in the morning?

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

5. Who does Whitman say that is is close with, murmuring alike reproachfully rolling sands and drift?

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