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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of song does Whitman say he will sing in the sixth inscription of the book's opening?
(a) Leaves.
(b) Patriotism.
(c) Companionship.
(d) Truth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Once a state is fully enslaved, according to Whitman, no nation, state, city, of the Earth can resume its ____________.
(a) Victory.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Power.
(d) Liberty.

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

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

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

12. "You furnish your parts toward eternity, Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the ________."
(a) End.
(b) Soul.
(c) Answer.
(d) Truth.

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

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

15. What are the terrible perturbations of the suns, swelling, collapsing, and ending?
(a) Clouds.
(b) Stars.
(c) Moons.
(d) Planets.

Short Answer Questions

1. The ___________ is equal with the male according to Whitman in the first page of his poetry book?

2. Whitman expresses that he knows the __________ does not know how longingly he looked at them.

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

4. Whitman points out that it is not on the reader that they alone have ___________ which fall on them

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

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