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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whitman believes that the words of true ________ do not merely please those who read them.
(a) Books.
(b) Myths.
(c) Stories.
(d) Poems.

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

3. Whitman proposes that grass is the ___________ of the Lord, when he contemplates it as a child.
(a) Cup.
(b) Blanket.
(c) Food.
(d) Handkerchief.

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

5. Who does Whitman consider to be dear and dreadful to the earth, as he writes in one of his poems?
(a) Truth tellers.
(b) Women.
(c) Sages.
(d) Beginners.

6. To what does Whitman say he is near at hand with a throat to inflate itself and sing joyfully?
(a) Honor.
(b) Ocean.
(c) Nature.
(d) Democracy.

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

8. What are houses and rooms full of? What are shelves crowded with according to Whitman?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Perfumes.
(c) Deceit.
(d) Truth.

9. What is the city of orgies, according to Whitman's poem of the same name?
(a) Manhattan.
(b) Newark.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Boston.

10. Who does Whitman point out are subordinated at their tasks during "Calamus"?
(a) Men.
(b) Children.
(c) Women.
(d) No one.

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

12. What carry the filaments of the news of wars, deaths, losses, gains, passions, and of race?
(a) Telegraphs.
(b) Pigeons.
(c) Breezes.
(d) Phones.

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

14. It is the engineer's joy to go with the _____________ in his days.
(a) Track.
(b) Locomotive.
(c) Cars.
(d) Coal.

15. "Carry me when you go forth over land or sea; For thus merely ______________ you is enough, is best."
(a) Knowing.
(b) Feeling.
(c) Breathing.
(d) Touching.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Whitman answer for when he takes the young man's hands in his own?

2. To what state does Whitman promise to know very well after traveling to it?

3. Where does Whitman say there are beautiful hills which should be recognized as such?

4. Whitman points out that it is not on the reader that they alone have ___________ which fall on them

5. Whitman believes himself to be as trustful to his poems as a father is to his _______________.

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