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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how many years in Manhattan has Whitman watched the parades of soldiers through the city?
(a) Forty.
(b) Ten.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Twenty.

2. Whitman says that years of ____________ are transient and strange, though he says he too is one.
(a) Beauty.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Ideas.
(d) Meteors.

3. What rose before Whitman when he was pondering his poetry in silence in this book?
(a) Water.
(b) Grass.
(c) Sun.
(d) Phantom.

4. The ___________ is equal with the male according to Whitman in the first page of his poetry book?
(a) Female.
(b) River.
(c) Tree.
(d) Country.

5. What color is the water in the poem, "In Cabin'd Ships at Sea," as it moves around the boat?
(a) Green.
(b) Gray.
(c) Black.
(d) Blue.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Whitman talks about Christianity, with whom does he commiserate within his poems on the topic?

2. What do the lovers who exit the room after the night leave over baskets, swelling the house with their plenty?

3. Whitman asks in his poems who may have learned the ______________ of the lessons that he has to teach.

4. No one should be pointed to a certain __________ as this should be someone's own personal choice in life.

5. In what state was there a flood of such great proportions that is caused a great deal of death and destruction?

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