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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who does Whitman say that is is close with, murmuring alike reproachfully rolling sands and drift?
(a) Children.
(b) Rivers.
(c) Oceans.
(d) Forests.

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

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) George.
(d) Thomas.

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the title of the poem which begins "forms, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts...."?

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

5. Who is singing the song, a husky song as the main character in the poem walks on the beach at night alone?

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