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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the man that Whitman describes as being very cute, a man who is a made man from this day?
(a) Bill.
(b) Jonathan.
(c) Thomas.
(d) George.

2. What is piercing through the storm, piercing and pealing as the storm rises up?
(a) Silence.
(b) Laughter.
(c) Tears.
(d) Singing.

3. Whitman says that not a disembodied _________ can the weapons of tyrants let loose, but it stalks invisibly.
(a) Truth.
(b) Song.
(c) Poem.
(d) Spirit.

4. The United States is seen as ________ with equality in the eyes of their mother, according to Whitman.
(a) Partners.
(b) Eagles.
(c) Cubs.
(d) Children.

5. From the sea of ________, Whitman says that he will collect and bring a windrow drift of weeds and shells.
(a) Belief.
(b) Patriotism.
(c) Truth.
(d) Time.

6. Who does Whitman describe as being lean and sinewy with muscular legs, thinly clothed, and well trained?
(a) Teacher.
(b) President.
(c) Pioneer.
(d) Runner.

7. When Whitman sits and looks out into the world, he sees all the __________ and the agony without end.
(a) Justice.
(b) Peace.
(c) Meanness.
(d) Anger.

8. Whitman says that years of ____________ are transient and strange, though he says he too is one.
(a) Beauty.
(b) Meteors.
(c) Ideas.
(d) Politicians.

9. What does Whitman say that Ireland once was before she leaned and became tattered on the ground?
(a) Queen.
(b) Story.
(c) Ship.
(d) Goddess.

10. What is the powerful machine which is moving through the snow with its vapor-pennants tinged with delicate purple?
(a) Wagon.
(b) Locomotive.
(c) Steam engine.
(d) Car.

11. Who is singing the song, a husky song as the main character in the poem walks on the beach at night alone?
(a) Father.
(b) Brother.
(c) Sister.
(d) Mother.

12. At the time of freedom, the soul can emerge fully and ponder the _________ one loves best.
(a) Animals.
(b) Themes.
(c) Silence.
(d) Truth.

13. Who is sultry with perfumes, with ample and flowing garments, florid with blood, hot with passion?
(a) Creatrix.
(b) Mistress.
(c) Originatress.
(d) Mother Earth.

14. What is the title of the poem which begins "forms, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts...."?
(a) Truths.
(b) Germs.
(c) Notions.
(d) Ideas.

15. To whom is Whitman referring when he talks about the estuary which enlarges and spread itself grandly in the great sea?
(a) Time.
(b) His father.
(c) Old age.
(d) His words.

Short Answer Questions

1. As people walk down the street, their ________ convey more than their words ever could, according to Whitman.

2. "And there is ______ to us of all that has ever come of races and days, or ever will come."

3. Which is the ancient country which Whitman seems to think is progressing into the future, much in the same way as America?

4. The child and her father are looking in the _____ at the autumn skin in "On the Beach at Night."

5. What are the felons wearing when they come into the courtroom as Whitman watches them out of curiosity?

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