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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What carry the filaments of the news of wars, deaths, losses, gains, passions, and of race?
(a) Breezes.
(b) Phones.
(c) Pigeons.
(d) Telegraphs.

2. Underneath all of the mysticism, what does Whitman say that he sees in the man for his comrade?
(a) Love.
(b) Hope.
(c) Honor.
(d) Strength.

3. Who leaves natural breaths, the sounds of rains and winds, calls as the birds and animals in the woods?
(a) The mothers.
(b) Red aborigines.
(c) The birds.
(d) The Gods.

4. Whitman believes himself to be as trustful to his poems as a father is to his _______________.
(a) Wife.
(b) Home.
(c) Children.
(d) Family.

5. Whitman is not only considering the idea of death, but also of chanting the chant of ___________.
(a) Battles.
(b) Truth.
(c) Honor.
(d) Allegiance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are houses and rooms full of? What are shelves crowded with according to Whitman?

2. What are the terrible perturbations of the suns, swelling, collapsing, and ending?

3. What kind of headsman stands mask'd, clothed in red, with huge legs and strong naked arms?

4. Who does Whitman profess to folding in every leaf of his poetry in order to celebrate the sea?

5. Whitman believes that the words of true ________ do not merely please those who read them.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the city which Whitman admires, though not for the pageantry and the wealth that exists in this city?

2. Why does Whitman warn the readers about the dangers of religion and those who are enamored of it?

3. What does Whitman think about seeing the world through someone else's eyes, even if it is through the eyes of a poet?

4. What parts of the United States structure does Whitman have a lot of respect for?

5. What are some of the similar points of religions which Whitman points out for the reader?

6. What does Whitman say when someone else is present with his body? What changes?

7. What does Whitman proclaim about nature when he is talking about nature in this first section ?

8. What does the author feel about the idea of being present in the here and in the now?

9. What does Whitman have to say about the pain of loving a man or a woman in great excess?

10. What are some of the features of the Paumanok area of Long Island which makes the area special to Whitman?

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