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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color of hair does Whitman say that Ireland has now as she is changing from what she once was?
(a) White.
(b) Green.
(c) Red.
(d) Brown.

2. "Great are the ________" is work in which Whitman celebrates these creative works, those of old and new times.
(a) Myths.
(b) Characters.
(c) Pages.
(d) Stories.

3. Where does Whitman say there are beautiful hills which should be recognized as such?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) Maine.
(d) Brooklyn.

4. Where does Whitman decide to merge with the crowd when they descend to the pavements?
(a) Ice rink.
(b) Boardwalk.
(c) Beach.
(d) Broadway.

5. Whitman refers to America as the continent of _________ of the triumph of freedom and of democracies.
(a) Glories.
(b) Waters.
(c) Wars.
(d) Achievements.

Short Answer Questions

1. To all those things in life, - patriotism, for example - Whitman offers and wishes ______________.

2. Whitman believes that lessons can be learned from everyone, even those who are greeted in friendship or in __________.

3. What are the terrible perturbations of the suns, swelling, collapsing, and ending?

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

5. Which is the ancient country which Whitman seems to think is progressing into the future, much in the same way as America?

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