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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whitman wonders how the real _______ can ever die and be buried in the end?
(a) Person.
(b) Book.
(c) Word.
(d) Body.

2. The child and her father are looking in the _____ at the autumn skin in "On the Beach at Night."
(a) South.
(b) East.
(c) West.
(d) North.

3. What is NOT a word which is used to describe the poets Whitman says are still to come in the world?
(a) Native.
(b) Athletic.
(c) Honest.
(d) Continental.

4. What color is the water in the poem, "In Cabin'd Ships at Sea," as it moves around the boat?
(a) Black.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Gray.

5. Who does Whitman beckon to toil on, to harvest the products even though they are not alone in the fields?
(a) Heroes.
(b) Presidents.
(c) Children.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state did Whitman see the live-oak growing, and named a poem after this occurrence?

2. What kind of birds fly together, interlocking their claws and beating their wings as one in the poem Whitman includes?

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

4. What is the title of the poem which begins "forms, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts...."?

5. Even those, Whitman says, that know unrequited ________ can sleep, as do prisoners.

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