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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Once a state is fully enslaved, according to Whitman, no nation, state, city, of the Earth can resume its ____________.
(a) Wealth.
(b) Power.
(c) Liberty.
(d) Victory.

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

3. Who does Whitman say that he does not forget, not in the summer or in the winter?
(a) Children.
(b) Words.
(c) Heroes.
(d) Departed.

4. What does Whitman say that he will expose when he runs his furrow with his plough and press his spade through the sod?
(a) Vegetables.
(b) Foul meat.
(c) Roots.
(d) Dirt.

5. Whitman says that he sings the songs of the glory of ___________, not God.
(a) Nature.
(b) Earth.
(c) None.
(d) Words.

Short Answer Questions

1. Walt Whitman sees _______ exhaling from unexplored countries and savage types with bows and arrows.

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

3. To what does Whitman say he is near at hand with a throat to inflate itself and sing joyfully?

4. Whitman appears to have some sort of connection to _________ and to prostitutes, trying to understand them.

5. What do the lovers who exit the room after the night leave over baskets, swelling the house with their plenty?

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