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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Whitman stop in order to satisfy his curiosity about what is inside?
(a) The Congress.
(b) City Dead House.
(c) The hospital.
(d) The Farm.

2. What color is the halo in the sky, drooping upon the sea in the description of the water?
(a) Black.
(b) Brown.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

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

4. Who does Whitman say the person in the poem "Europe" was paid to do?
(a) Write the poems.
(b) Defile the People.
(c) Leave the land untouched.
(d) Cross the water.

5. What are NOT one of the images of people who sleep well, which Whitman includes in his poems for comparison?
(a) Bodies on battlefields.
(b) Married couples.
(c) A gay couple.
(d) A child in its mother's arms.

6. Though Whitman says he paints myriads of heads, he also says that he paints head without a ________.
(a) Smile.
(b) Green crown.
(c) Purple coloring.
(d) Golden nimbus of light.

7. What do mediums convey when they arrive and they are successful in the United States, according to Whitman?
(a) Half truths.
(b) Truth.
(c) Lies.
(d) Gospel.

8. Whitman appears to have some sort of connection to _________ and to prostitutes, trying to understand them.
(a) Missionaries.
(b) Beggars.
(c) Felons.
(d) Farmers.

9. The combination of justice and God, according to Whitman, can be blended together to make an immortal ___________.
(a) Government.
(b) Reality.
(c) Story.
(d) Armistice.

10. ___________ are able to convey nature, enjoy materialism, become orators, and create from their own experiences.
(a) Teachers.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Mediums.
(d) Women.

11. Where does Whitman decide to merge with the crowd when they descend to the pavements?
(a) Boardwalk.
(b) Ice rink.
(c) Beach.
(d) Broadway.

12. 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.

13. Whitman says that he sings the songs of the glory of ___________, not God.
(a) Words.
(b) Nature.
(c) None.
(d) Earth.

14. What will return as the ocean of life begins to ebb away from the shore, according to Whitman?
(a) Sand.
(b) Light
(c) Flow.
(d) Green.

15. For what time of the year does Whitman write a warble, in the form of a poem for in the "Autumn Rivulets" section?
(a) Winter.
(b) Spring.
(c) Lilac.
(d) Autumn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the things which keeps Whitman up late at night, though he needs no assurances?

2. What does Whitman beckon to sound clearer in and through the atmosphere?

3. Whitman says that years of ____________ are transient and strange, though he says he too is one.

4. Who does Whitman describe as being lean and sinewy with muscular legs, thinly clothed, and well trained?

5. What does Whitman say was the year of struggle, the year when no dainty rhymes or sentimental loves verses were written?

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