View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is in the curious trio with Whitman? This trio includes his _________ and his body, and himself.
(a) Gut.
(b) Heart.
(c) Soul.
(d) Eyes.

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

4. Whitman includes a series of poems which pertain to forms of education from questions posed to _______ to tests and judgement.
(a) Students.
(b) Principals.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Senators.

5. Whitman addresses the reader in "To You," telling the reader he fears they are walking the walks of _____________.
(a) Pain.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Armies.
(d) Clouds.

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

7. What causes the soldiers to fall into step and to arm themselves?
(a) Drum taps.
(b) Guns.
(c) Drill sergeants.
(d) Enemies.

8. Which is the ancient country which Whitman seems to think is progressing into the future, much in the same way as America?
(a) Somalia.
(b) Japan.
(c) China.
(d) India.

9. Who does Whitman want to kiss him, to touch him on the lips as he touches those he loves?
(a) His lover.
(b) His mother.
(c) Paumanok.
(d) A wave.

10. Even those, Whitman says, that know unrequited ________ can sleep, as do prisoners.
(a) Patience.
(b) Death.
(c) Loss.
(d) Love.

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) Mother.
(c) Sister.
(d) Brother.

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

13. Who does Whitman beckon to toil on, to harvest the products even though they are not alone in the fields?
(a) Presidents.
(b) Heroes.
(c) Children.
(d) Women.

14. What kind of birds fly together, interlocking their claws and beating their wings as one in the poem Whitman includes?
(a) Pelicans.
(b) Herons.
(c) Robins.
(d) Eagles.

15. What does Whitman say that he will expose when he runs his furrow with his plough and press his spade through the sod?
(a) Vegetables.
(b) Foul meat.
(c) Roots.
(d) Dirt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman appears to have some sort of connection to _________ and to prostitutes, trying to understand them.

2. For how many years in Manhattan has Whitman watched the parades of soldiers through the city?

3. At the time of freedom, the soul can emerge fully and ponder the _________ one loves best.

4. Where does Whitman decide to merge with the crowd when they descend to the pavements?

5. Whitman was seized by a spirit, held by an _________self out of the pride which causes him to utter poems.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 445 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample