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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 are the terrible perturbations of the suns, swelling, collapsing, and ending?
(a) Moons.
(b) Clouds.
(c) Planets.
(d) Stars.

2. "Carry me when you go forth over land or sea; For thus merely ______________ you is enough, is best."
(a) Knowing.
(b) Breathing.
(c) Feeling.
(d) Touching.

3. What kind of headsman stands mask'd, clothed in red, with huge legs and strong naked arms?
(a) Australian.
(b) American.
(c) Asian.
(d) European.

4. What is flying aloft as the ship begins to go out into the sea in "The Ship Starting"?
(a) Hopes.
(b) Pennants.
(c) Hands.
(d) Ribbons.

5. Whitman realizes he was still not happen when he heard _________ and was received well at the capitol.
(a) His voice.
(b) Silence.
(c) His poem.
(d) His name.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has been named with can not be countermanded in struggles and in wars?

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

3. Whitman addresses other countries who are striving to prove the puzzle of America, the athletic ______________.

4. Whitman says that he is not sure, but the high soul of lovers welcomes _______ most.

5. Whitman is not only considering the idea of death, but also of chanting the chant of ___________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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