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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. As people walk down the street, their ________ convey more than their words ever could, according to Whitman.
(a) Hands.
(b) Faces.
(c) Arms.
(d) Feet.

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

4. What does Whitman say the man is now that he has tears in his face at the sight of the waters?
(a) Teen.
(b) Baby.
(c) Child.
(d) Woman.

5. Who does Whitman say that he does not forget, not in the summer or in the winter?
(a) Words.
(b) Children.
(c) Departed.
(d) Heroes.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What color of hair does Whitman say that Ireland has now as she is changing from what she once was?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Green.
(d) Brown.

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

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

14. _________ sprouts push through the snow, helping to reveal the coming of Spring and of the month of March.
(a) Wet.
(b) Green.
(c) New.
(d) Small.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Though Whitman says he paints myriads of heads, he also says that he paints head without a ________.

2. Whitman asks in his poems who may have learned the ______________ of the lessons that he has to teach.

3. What does Whitman say that one should hold up sternly in order for it to send something back?

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

5. What causes the soldiers to fall into step and to arm themselves?

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