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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT a word which is used to describe the poets Whitman says are still to come in the world?
(a) Native.
(b) Honest.
(c) Athletic.
(d) Continental.

2. What sort of song does Whitman say he will sing in the sixth inscription of the book's opening?
(a) Patriotism.
(b) Truth.
(c) Leaves.
(d) Companionship.

3. Whitman says that he is not sure, but the high soul of lovers welcomes _______ most.
(a) Death.
(b) Truth.
(c) Lust.
(d) Desire.

4. Whitman believes that in his journey, the _________ is not the only thing that is there.
(a) Trees.
(b) Nature.
(c) Road.
(d) Honor.

5. What shape is Paumanok, according to the way that Whitman describes it in his poetry?
(a) Spiral.
(b) Square.
(c) Bean.
(d) Fish.

6. Whitman says it is a painful thing to ___________ someone to excess, yet the rewards are great.
(a) Love.
(b) Believe in.
(c) Honor.
(d) Hate.

7. Who leaves natural breaths, the sounds of rains and winds, calls as the birds and animals in the woods?
(a) The birds.
(b) Red aborigines.
(c) The Gods.
(d) The mothers.

8. To what state does Whitman promise to know very well after traveling to it?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Florida.
(c) Ohio.
(d) California.

9. Whitman is not only considering the idea of death, but also of chanting the chant of ___________.
(a) Honor.
(b) Battles.
(c) Truth.
(d) Allegiance.

10. What are the terrible perturbations of the suns, swelling, collapsing, and ending?
(a) Stars.
(b) Planets.
(c) Clouds.
(d) Moons.

11. What is forever and ever, longer than soil is brown and solid, longer than water ebbs and flows?
(a) Soul.
(b) Faith.
(c) Family.
(d) Religion.

12. With another man, Whitman writes, he dilates and fuses the immortal laws and makes himself by them the _______ unto himself.
(a) Truth.
(b) Honor.
(c) Love.
(d) Law.

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

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

15. Who does Whitman meet in the poem, "Eidolons," passing the hues and objects of the world?
(a) Seer.
(b) Horse.
(c) Servant.
(d) Child.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Whitman consider to be dear and dreadful to the earth, as he writes in one of his poems?

2. The ___________ cheerfully braves the winter, says Whitman when he addresses this group, the snow and ice welcoming him.

3. In what state did Whitman see the live-oak growing, and named a poem after this occurrence?

4. Whitman wonders how the real _______ can ever die and be buried in the end?

5. Once a state is fully enslaved, according to Whitman, no nation, state, city, of the Earth can resume its ____________.

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