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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has been named with can not be countermanded in struggles and in wars?
(a) Birth.
(b) Truth.
(c) Death.
(d) Goal.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Who does Whitman answer for when he takes the young man's hands in his own?
(a) His sister.
(b) His mother.
(c) His brother.
(d) God.

9. Whitman believes himself to be as trustful to his poems as a father is to his _______________.
(a) Home.
(b) Family.
(c) Children.
(d) Wife.

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

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

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

13. 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.

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

15. Who does Whitman profess to folding in every leaf of his poetry in order to celebrate the sea?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Sea serpents.
(c) Mariners.
(d) Poets.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman hears that some people believe that he is trying to destroy ____________, which confuses him.

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

3. With another man, Whitman writes, he dilates and fuses the immortal laws and makes himself by them the _______ unto himself.

4. Whitman says it is a painful thing to ___________ someone to excess, yet the rewards are great.

5. "Carry me when you go forth over land or sea; For thus merely ______________ you is enough, is best."

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