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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Dirt.
(c) Foul meat.
(d) Roots.

2. 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) A gay couple.
(c) A child in its mother's arms.
(d) Married couples.

3. What is one of the things which keeps Whitman up late at night, though he needs no assurances?
(a) Pain.
(b) Creative thoughts.
(c) Death.
(d) Lost lovers.

4. What is the one thing that Whitman says the President has not learned of during his life so far?
(a) Bravery.
(b) Justice.
(c) Honor.
(d) Nature.

5. Whitman is clear that he is giving his spirit to ___________, though he does not mention him by name.
(a) Jehovah.
(b) Buddha.
(c) Satan.
(d) Christ.

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

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

8. What does Whitman beckon to sound clearer in and through the atmosphere?
(a) Eyes.
(b) Birds.
(c) Poems.
(d) Throat.

9. What does Whitman say was the year of struggle, the year when no dainty rhymes or sentimental loves verses were written?
(a) 1841.
(b) 1821.
(c) 1851.
(d) 1861.

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

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

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

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

14. For how many years in Manhattan has Whitman watched the parades of soldiers through the city?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Forty.

15. Where is the good place in Boston where Whitman wants to see the show from in the morning?
(a) At the church.
(b) At the docks.
(c) At the corner.
(d) At the diner.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the child went forth, what happened to him every day? He became the ____________ he looked at.

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

3. What song does Whitman hope they play as he is waiting for the show to begin in Boston?

4. Who are the tan faced children who follow well in order and get their weapons ready?

5. What does Whitman say the man is now that he has tears in his face at the sight of the waters?

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