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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 color of hair does Whitman say that Ireland has now as she is changing from what she once was?
(a) White.
(b) Red.
(c) Brown.
(d) Green.

2. What is the powerful machine which is moving through the snow with its vapor-pennants tinged with delicate purple?
(a) Locomotive.
(b) Wagon.
(c) Steam engine.
(d) Car.

3. Who are the tan faced children who follow well in order and get their weapons ready?
(a) The Indians.
(b) Slaves.
(c) His children.
(d) The pioneers.

4. Who does Whitman describe as sitting in the middle of the prison and causing a scene?
(a) A child.
(b) A mystic.
(c) A woman singer.
(d) A priest.

5. Who is sultry with perfumes, with ample and flowing garments, florid with blood, hot with passion?
(a) Creatrix.
(b) Mistress.
(c) Mother Earth.
(d) Originatress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman was seized by a spirit, held by an _________self out of the pride which causes him to utter poems.

2. What does Whitman say that Ireland once was before she leaned and became tattered on the ground?

3. What is the title of the poem which begins "forms, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts...."?

4. Who asks Whitman to sing a song that no poet has yet to have chanted?

5. Whitman includes a series of poems which pertain to forms of education from questions posed to _______ to tests and judgement.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the phantoms to which Whitman refers in his poems about love being lost?

2. To whom does Whitman appear to give his spirit to, though this person is never mentioned by name in a poem?

3. Why is an old man in the poem "Prayers of Columbus" too full of woe, according to Whitman's poem?

4. How is the plowman used in reference and as a metaphor for death in Whitman's poem?

5. What does Whitman ask the soul to do in the poems about addressing the idea of mortality?

6. Why does the young man ring the ocean bell when he is steering the boat during the treacherous weather?

7. What does the poem "Passage to India" have to share about this country and about its progress in the world?

8. Why does Whitman pay homage to the young pioneers who forged ahead to find homes for themselves?

9. Why is it sad when one of the birds in a couple dies and the other one does not know it?

10. What is the procession of the people into the theater, one of many on Broadway, used as a metaphor for in "A Broadway Pageant"?

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