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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 is described as never tiring, as being rude, silent, and incomprehensible at first?
(a) Love.
(b) Earth.
(c) Moon.
(d) Faith.

2. Whitman addresses other countries who are striving to prove the puzzle of America, the athletic ______________.
(a) Constitution.
(b) Ambition.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Grasses.

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

4. The ___________ is equal with the male according to Whitman in the first page of his poetry book?
(a) Tree.
(b) Female.
(c) Country.
(d) River.

5. Whitman believes that all heroic deeds were conceived in __________, as are all free poems.
(a) The soul.
(b) Church.
(c) God's hand.
(d) The open air.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Carry me when you go forth over land or sea; For thus merely ______________ you is enough, is best."

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

3. What will Whitman plant as thick as trees along all the rivers of America and along the shores of all the great lakes?

4. What does Whitman say goes to and fro, seeking a livelihood, chattering, and chaffering?

5. "You furnish your parts toward eternity, Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the ________."

Short Essay Questions

1. Where was Whitman born, and how does that place affect him?

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

3. What does Whitman reveal about a lover who spoke of acceptance within one of his poems?

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

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

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

7. What does Whitman describe his understanding of Adam's first experience when walking in the Garden of Eden?

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

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

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

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