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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) Stories.
(b) Myths.
(c) Books.
(d) Poems.

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

3. Whitman points out that it is not on the reader that they alone have ___________ which fall on them
(a) Pain.
(b) Dark patches.
(c) Trust.
(d) Anger.

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is flying aloft as the ship begins to go out into the sea in "The Ship Starting"?
(a) Pennants.
(b) Hands.
(c) Hopes.
(d) Ribbons.

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

11. Whitman finds he is larger and better than he thought. He did not know he held so much ___________.
(a) Truth.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Goodness.
(d) Understanding.

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

13. Whitman ponders where he actually knows anything of his own ________ as he thinks about the biography of another.
(a) Needs.
(b) Message.
(c) Life.
(d) History.

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

15. Where does Whitman say there are beautiful hills which should be recognized as such?
(a) Amsterdam.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Maine.
(d) Brooklyn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman says that he is not sure, but the high soul of lovers welcomes _______ most.

2. What shape is Paumanok, according to the way that Whitman describes it in his poetry?

3. Walt Whitman hears the rhythmic myths of the ____________, the strong legends of the Romans.

4. Whitman believes that all heroic deeds were conceived in __________, as are all free poems.

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

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