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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The __________ has joy in inflating the chest, rolling the thunder of the voice, making the people rage, and leading America.
(a) Congressman.
(b) Orator.
(c) President.
(d) Lawyer.

2. During this section of the poems, what age does Whitman profess to being?
(a) 35.
(b) 37.
(c) 41.
(d) 42.

3. Who does Whitman not want to shut their proud doors to him, as stated in a poem of that same idea?
(a) Churches.
(b) Armies.
(c) Libraries.
(d) Schools.

4. Whitman expresses that he knows the __________ does not know how longingly he looked at them.
(a) Woman.
(b) Old woman.
(c) Passing stranger.
(d) Blade of grass.

5. Walt Whitman sees _______ exhaling from unexplored countries and savage types with bows and arrows.
(a) Stories.
(b) Myths.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Vapors.

Short Answer Questions

1. It is the engineer's joy to go with the _____________ in his days.

2. Whitman pays homage to the ashes of the _________ soldiers, both sides of the conflict are included in his reverence.

3. Where does Whitman stop in order to satisfy his curiosity about what is inside?

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

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

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