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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. Walt Whitman hears the rhythmic myths of the ____________, the strong legends of the Romans.
(a) Germans.
(b) Egyptians.
(c) Norse.
(d) Greeks.

2. Once a state is fully enslaved, according to Whitman, no nation, state, city, of the Earth can resume its ____________.
(a) Liberty.
(b) Power.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Victory.

3. During this section of the poems, what age does Whitman profess to being?
(a) 37.
(b) 42.
(c) 41.
(d) 35.

4. Whitman points out that it is not on the reader that they alone have ___________ which fall on them
(a) Pain.
(b) Trust.
(c) Anger.
(d) Dark patches.

5. Whitman believes that in his journey, the _________ is not the only thing that is there.
(a) Nature.
(b) Trees.
(c) Honor.
(d) Road.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the lovers who exit the room after the night leave over baskets, swelling the house with their plenty?

2. To what state does Whitman promise to know very well after traveling to it?

3. Whitman believes himself to be as trustful to his poems as a father is to his _______________.

4. Where does Whitman say there are beautiful hills which should be recognized as such?

5. What is forever and ever, longer than soil is brown and solid, longer than water ebbs and flows?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are some of the poet's feelings about the idea of mortality, according to the poems he writes?

3. What is Whitman's stance on how he views individual people and who they are, an opinion which is repeated frequently?

4. What does Whitman try to do for himself, instead of being completely engrossed by one belief system?

5. How does Whitman describe the touches of the lover as they are making love in the grass with each other?

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

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

8. What does Whitman state about the idea of what happens after death, though he is still unsure?

9. What does Whitman describe when he is talking about the experiences of his body in relation to another's body?

10. What is the main reason why Whitman says that he enjoys Manhattan so much during his travels there?

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