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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 includes a series of poems which pertain to forms of education from questions posed to _______ to tests and judgement.
(a) Teachers.
(b) Students.
(c) Principals.
(d) Senators.

2. Who are the tan faced children who follow well in order and get their weapons ready?
(a) The Indians.
(b) His children.
(c) Slaves.
(d) The pioneers.

3. Whitman believes that America has gone through a series of __________ pains in order to get where it is at the time of writing.
(a) Aging.
(b) Athletic.
(c) Growing.
(d) Birthing.

4. ____________ should allow slaves to be masters and masters to be slaves, according to Whitman.
(a) Plantation owners.
(b) Society.
(c) Churches.
(d) Presidents.

5. Who does Whitman say the person in the poem "Europe" was paid to do?
(a) Write the poems.
(b) Defile the People.
(c) Leave the land untouched.
(d) Cross the water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is permanent, lurking there within the body, the only purport of thous art, the real I myself?

2. Whitman also believes there should be a redistribution of ________ in society and spends many pages explaining why.

3. Whitman points out that it is not on the reader that they alone have ___________ which fall on them

4. What is the powerful machine which is moving through the snow with its vapor-pennants tinged with delicate purple?

5. Who asks Whitman to sing a song that no poet has yet to have chanted?

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