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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. Whitman believes there is terrible doubt in _____________, there is uncertainty and the possibility of being deluded.
(a) Government.
(b) Appearances.
(c) Children.
(d) Nature.

2. The __________ has joy in inflating the chest, rolling the thunder of the voice, making the people rage, and leading America.
(a) Congressman.
(b) Orator.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) President.

3. Whitman says that he was offering too long to feed his soul with __________, which was clearly not a good idea..
(a) Questions.
(b) Answers.
(c) Truths.
(d) Standards.

4. Whitman wonders how the real _______ can ever die and be buried in the end?
(a) Word.
(b) Person.
(c) Body.
(d) Book.

5. What are houses and rooms full of? What are shelves crowded with according to Whitman?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Perfumes.
(c) Truth.
(d) Deceit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Whitman consider to be dear and dreadful to the earth, as he writes in one of his poems?

2. With another man, Whitman writes, he dilates and fuses the immortal laws and makes himself by them the _______ unto himself.

3. Where did Whitman say that he sat studying the older times of American? The feet of ___________.

4. What shape is Paumanok, according to the way that Whitman describes it in his poetry?

5. Which sort of bird caused Whitman to stop and open listen to it opening its throat and joyfully singing?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What can be determined about Whitman's life experiences by the reading of the many poems which Whitman has crafted about the water?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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