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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Walt Whitman sees _______ exhaling from unexplored countries and savage types with bows and arrows.
(a) Vapors.
(b) Myths.
(c) Stories.
(d) Ghosts.

2. Who does Whitman consider to be dear and dreadful to the earth, as he writes in one of his poems?
(a) Women.
(b) Sages.
(c) Truth tellers.
(d) Beginners.

3. Who does Whitman answer for when he takes the young man's hands in his own?
(a) His brother.
(b) His mother.
(c) God.
(d) His sister.

4. What are NOT one of the images of people who sleep well, which Whitman includes in his poems for comparison?
(a) Bodies on battlefields.
(b) A gay couple.
(c) Married couples.
(d) A child in its mother's arms.

5. Who is sultry with perfumes, with ample and flowing garments, florid with blood, hot with passion?
(a) Mother Earth.
(b) Creatrix.
(c) Originatress.
(d) Mistress.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who does Whitman point out are subordinated at their tasks during "Calamus"?

4. Whitman says that he was offering too long to feed his soul with __________, which was clearly not a good idea..

5. Though Whitman says he paints myriads of heads, he also says that he paints head without a ________.

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