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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) Children.
(c) Nature.
(d) Appearances.

2. To what does Whitman say he is near at hand with a throat to inflate itself and sing joyfully?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Nature.
(c) Ocean.
(d) Honor.

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

4. What did Whitman used to pull up from the water when he lived in his hometown during the summer months?
(a) Fish traps.
(b) Seaweed.
(c) Lobster pots.
(d) Netting.

5. Who does Whitman profess to folding in every leaf of his poetry in order to celebrate the sea?
(a) Sea serpents.
(b) Poets.
(c) Mariners.
(d) Dogs.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Whitman raises a _____________ hand to all who he mentions in his poem, making the signal to remain after him.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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