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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Walt Whitman hears the rhythmic myths of the ____________, the strong legends of the Romans.
(a) Greeks.
(b) Norse.
(c) Germans.
(d) Egyptians.

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

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

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

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

6. Who is singing the varied carols which Whitman can hear as mentioned in a poem which reveals the answer?
(a) Criminals.
(b) Canada.
(c) America.
(d) Men.

7. What do the lovers who exit the room after the night leave over baskets, swelling the house with their plenty?
(a) Money.
(b) White towels.
(c) Words.
(d) Birds.

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

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

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

11. 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.

12. What is flying aloft as the ship begins to go out into the sea in "The Ship Starting"?
(a) Hopes.
(b) Hands.
(c) Ribbons.
(d) Pennants.

13. What is described as never tiring, as being rude, silent, and incomprehensible at first?
(a) Faith.
(b) Earth.
(c) Moon.
(d) Love.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Whitman ponders where he actually knows anything of his own ________ as he thinks about the biography of another.

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

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

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