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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the lovers who exit the room after the night leave over baskets, swelling the house with their plenty?
(a) Money.
(b) Birds.
(c) White towels.
(d) Words.

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

3. Walt Whitman hears the rhythmic myths of the ____________, the strong legends of the Romans.
(a) Egyptians.
(b) Greeks.
(c) Norse.
(d) Germans.

4. The ___________ cheerfully braves the winter, says Whitman when he addresses this group, the snow and ice welcoming him.
(a) Alaskan.
(b) Canadian.
(c) Kanadian.
(d) Delawarean.

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

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

7. "You furnish your parts toward eternity, Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the ________."
(a) Answer.
(b) Soul.
(c) End.
(d) Truth.

8. Whitman realizes he was still not happen when he heard _________ and was received well at the capitol.
(a) His voice.
(b) His poem.
(c) Silence.
(d) His name.

9. How old is Whitman at the time of his writing his poems, noting this in his poems and that he is in good health?
(a) 28.
(b) 18.
(c) 27.
(d) 37.

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

11. How does Whitman spell Canada when he uses the name in the poem, "On Journeys through the States"?
(a) Canada.
(b) Kanada.
(c) Kunada.
(d) Kanuda.

12. During this section of the poems, what age does Whitman profess to being?
(a) 41.
(b) 37.
(c) 35.
(d) 42.

13. Whitman hears that some people believe that he is trying to destroy ____________, which confuses him.
(a) Schools.
(b) Libraries.
(c) Churches.
(d) Institutions.

14. What will Whitman plant as thick as trees along all the rivers of America and along the shores of all the great lakes?
(a) Shrubs.
(b) Patriotism.
(c) Honor.
(d) Companionship.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Whitman used to pull up from the water when he lived in his hometown during the summer months?

2. Who does Whitman not want to shut their proud doors to him, as stated in a poem of that same idea?

3. Whitman addresses other countries who are striving to prove the puzzle of America, the athletic ______________.

4. Whitman raises a _____________ hand to all who he mentions in his poem, making the signal to remain after him.

5. What did Whitman once feel was impassive, ample, and spheric in nature, though he is changing his mind?

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