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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Respondez" is a poem about how the _________ of everyone should be addressed and none should be evaded.
(a) Pain.
(b) Desires.
(c) Stories.
(d) Tears.

2. Whitman believes that all heroic deeds were conceived in __________, as are all free poems.
(a) Church.
(b) The soul.
(c) God's hand.
(d) The open air.

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

4. Whitman states that nothing is ever completely ______________, nor is that even possible in the world.
(a) Seen.
(b) Understood.
(c) Forgiven.
(d) Lost.

5. Which sort of bird caused Whitman to stop and open listen to it opening its throat and joyfully singing?
(a) Robin.
(b) She-bird.
(c) He-bird.
(d) Song dove.

Short Answer Questions

1. "You furnish your parts toward eternity, Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the ________."

2. Who is singing the varied carols which Whitman can hear as mentioned in a poem which reveals the answer?

3. Whitman points out there is no need for the sound of __________, for the spirited horses, or for the glistening sabers.

4. What is described as never tiring, as being rude, silent, and incomprehensible at first?

5. What does Whitman say was the year of struggle, the year when no dainty rhymes or sentimental loves verses were written?

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