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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From the sea of ________, Whitman says that he will collect and bring a windrow drift of weeds and shells.
(a) Belief.
(b) Patriotism.
(c) Time.
(d) Truth.

2. "You furnish your parts toward eternity, Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the ________."
(a) Answer.
(b) End.
(c) Soul.
(d) Truth.

3. Where does Whitman decide to merge with the crowd when they descend to the pavements?
(a) Ice rink.
(b) Broadway.
(c) Boardwalk.
(d) Beach.

4. What is the title of the poem which begins "forms, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts...."?
(a) Ideas.
(b) Germs.
(c) Notions.
(d) Truths.

5. Whitman is not only considering the idea of death, but also of chanting the chant of ___________.
(a) Allegiance.
(b) Battles.
(c) Honor.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whitman proposes that grass is the ___________ of the Lord, when he contemplates it as a child.

3. What kind of headsman stands mask'd, clothed in red, with huge legs and strong naked arms?

4. "And there is ______ to us of all that has ever come of races and days, or ever will come."

5. What will Whitman plant as thick as trees along all the rivers of America and along the shores of all the great lakes?

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