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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 will return as the ocean of life begins to ebb away from the shore, according to Whitman?
(a) Green.
(b) Light
(c) Flow.
(d) Sand.

2. Whitman includes a series of poems which pertain to forms of education from questions posed to _______ to tests and judgement.
(a) Principals.
(b) Students.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Senators.

3. What causes the soldiers to fall into step and to arm themselves?
(a) Drum taps.
(b) Drill sergeants.
(c) Guns.
(d) Enemies.

4. What kind of birds fly together, interlocking their claws and beating their wings as one in the poem Whitman includes?
(a) Pelicans.
(b) Herons.
(c) Robins.
(d) Eagles.

5. The combination of justice and God, according to Whitman, can be blended together to make an immortal ___________.
(a) Reality.
(b) Story.
(c) Government.
(d) Armistice.

Short Answer Questions

1. The metaphor of __________ is used in relation to the plowman, tilling to life, while the harvester harvests in the end.

2. For how many years in Manhattan has Whitman watched the parades of soldiers through the city?

3. Who is sultry with perfumes, with ample and flowing garments, florid with blood, hot with passion?

4. Whitman appears to have some sort of connection to _________ and to prostitutes, trying to understand them.

5. From the sea of ________, Whitman says that he will collect and bring a windrow drift of weeds and shells.

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the meteor used as a metaphor in the poem called, "Year of Meteors," which Whitman has written?

2. What happens to the summer rains, according to Whitman's poem "Autumn Rivulets"?

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

4. What does Whitman point out happens no matter how many advancements science has made?

5. What is an endless source of inspiration for poetry, according to the poems which the poet has created?

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

7. How does Whitman describe Paumanok in the spring when he writes the poem "Sea-Drift"?

8. What does the song have to include in itself in order to be considered universal?

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

10. What does a muse beckon Whitman to do in the beginning of these poems in this section?

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