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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Whitman meet in the poem, "Eidolons," passing the hues and objects of the world?
(a) Horse.
(b) Servant.
(c) Seer.
(d) Child.

2. Whitman asks in his poems who may have learned the ______________ of the lessons that he has to teach.
(a) Details.
(b) Broadness.
(c) Completeness.
(d) Truth.

3. Whose self does Whitman sing when he begins his collection of poems in this particular book?
(a) One's.
(b) Those.
(c) Her.
(d) Him.

4. Even those, Whitman says, that know unrequited ________ can sleep, as do prisoners.
(a) Love.
(b) Death.
(c) Patience.
(d) Loss.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Walt Whitman hears the rhythmic myths of the ____________, the strong legends of the Romans.

3. The metaphor of __________ is used in relation to the plowman, tilling to life, while the harvester harvests in the end.

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

5. When the child went forth, what happened to him every day? He became the ____________ he looked at.

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