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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whitman says he will make a true ________ which will earn for the body and mind whatever sticks and does not droop in death.
(a) Poem.
(b) Book.
(c) Song.
(d) Belief.

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

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

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

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

6. What does Whitman say goes to and fro, seeking a livelihood, chattering, and chaffering?
(a) His muse.
(b) Shadow.
(c) Soul.
(d) A worker.

7. Which sort of bird caused Whitman to stop and open listen to it opening its throat and joyfully singing?
(a) She-bird.
(b) Robin.
(c) He-bird.
(d) Song dove.

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

9. What kind of headsman stands mask'd, clothed in red, with huge legs and strong naked arms?
(a) Asian.
(b) Australian.
(c) European.
(d) American.

10. Who does Whitman see eating the bread of his last supper in the midst of youths and old persons?
(a) Mary.
(b) A death row inmate.
(c) Christ.
(d) A homeless man.

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

12. Whitman wonders how the real _______ can ever die and be buried in the end?
(a) Book.
(b) Person.
(c) Word.
(d) Body.

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

14. Whose self does Whitman sing when he begins his collection of poems in this particular book?
(a) Those.
(b) Her.
(c) Him.
(d) One's.

15. Walt Whitman sees _______ exhaling from unexplored countries and savage types with bows and arrows.
(a) Vapors.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Stories.
(d) Myths.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is singing the varied carols which Whitman can hear as mentioned in a poem which reveals the answer?

2. What is permanent, lurking there within the body, the only purport of thous art, the real I myself?

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

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

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

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