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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whitman calls the ostent evanescent the substances of a/an _________ mood or savan's studies long.
(a) Artist's.
(b) Woman's.
(c) Child's.
(d) Scientist's.

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

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

5. Whitman believes there is terrible doubt in _____________, there is uncertainty and the possibility of being deluded.
(a) Government.
(b) Nature.
(c) Appearances.
(d) Children.

6. 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.

7. Whitman says that he was offering too long to feed his soul with __________, which was clearly not a good idea..
(a) Answers.
(b) Truths.
(c) Standards.
(d) Questions.

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

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

10. With another man, Whitman writes, he dilates and fuses the immortal laws and makes himself by them the _______ unto himself.
(a) Law.
(b) Truth.
(c) Love.
(d) Honor.

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

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

13. What did Whitman used to pull up from the water when he lived in his hometown during the summer months?
(a) Netting.
(b) Seaweed.
(c) Fish traps.
(d) Lobster pots.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What will Whitman plant as thick as trees along all the rivers of America and along the shores of all the great lakes?

3. What is NOT a word which is used to describe the poets Whitman says are still to come in the world?

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

5. What is described as never tiring, as being rude, silent, and incomprehensible at first?

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