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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) Poems.
(b) Eyes.
(c) Throat.
(d) Birds.

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

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

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

5. What was Whitman's voice like when he sang late in the night, according to his writing?
(a) Joyful.
(b) Sad.
(c) Whispered.
(d) Low.

6. What causes Whitman to wander noiselessly and to bend over other sleepers, wandering and confused?
(a) Sickness.
(b) Nightly visions.
(c) Insomnia.
(d) Stealth.

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

8. Whitman asks in his poems who may have learned the ______________ of the lessons that he has to teach.
(a) Completeness.
(b) Broadness.
(c) Details.
(d) Truth.

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

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

11. What occurs once at sunrise and once at sunset, according to Whitman as he describes nature?
(a) A musical call.
(b) A brightening light.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A fading light.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman writes that whatever satisfies ________ is true, according to one of his poems.

2. From the sea of ________, Whitman says that he will collect and bring a windrow drift of weeds and shells.

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

4. What does Whitman say that he will expose when he runs his furrow with his plough and press his spade through the sod?

5. Who does Whitman say the person in the poem "Europe" was paid to do?

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