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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 37-40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whitman says that anyone who does not carry his poems should be ______________.
(a) Celebrated.
(b) Assassinated.
(c) Mourned.
(d) Cremated.

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

3. From Whitman's breast, he says that he has concealed confession drops. What color are these drops?
(a) Red.
(b) Clear.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

4. Whitman writes a tribute to a ______________ as it enters the world, far away from the winter. It is innocent and it trusts all.
(a) Dandelion.
(b) Ladybug.
(c) Daisy.
(d) Bird.

5. What does Whitman say goes to and fro, seeking a livelihood, chattering, and chaffering?
(a) Shadow.
(b) His muse.
(c) A worker.
(d) Soul.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color of hair does Whitman say that Ireland has now as she is changing from what she once was?

2. Who does Whitman consider to be dear and dreadful to the earth, as he writes in one of his poems?

3. What does Whitman say that he will expose when he runs his furrow with his plough and press his spade through the sod?

4. What color is the halo in the sky, drooping upon the sea in the description of the water?

5. Whitman says that one should "nourish a great _____________, a great brain; if I have said anything to the contrary, I hereby retract it."

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