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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Whitman once feel was impassive, ample, and spheric in nature, though he is changing his mind?
(a) Hawaii.
(b) America.
(c) Earth.
(d) Moon.

3. Where did Whitman say that he sat studying the older times of American? The feet of ___________.
(a) Mary.
(b) God.
(c) Jesus.
(d) The great masters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. "Carry me when you go forth over land or sea; For thus merely ______________ you is enough, is best."
(a) Feeling.
(b) Knowing.
(c) Touching.
(d) Breathing.

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

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

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

14. What shape is Paumanok, according to the way that Whitman describes it in his poetry?
(a) Bean.
(b) Fish.
(c) Square.
(d) Spiral.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman is not only considering the idea of death, but also of chanting the chant of ___________.

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

3. How old is Whitman at the time of his writing his poems, noting this in his poems and that he is in good health?

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

5. What is flying aloft as the ship begins to go out into the sea in "The Ship Starting"?

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