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

2. Who does Whitman beckon to toil on, to harvest the products even though they are not alone in the fields?
(a) Children.
(b) Presidents.
(c) Women.
(d) Heroes.

3. As people walk down the street, their ________ convey more than their words ever could, according to Whitman.
(a) Faces.
(b) Arms.
(c) Feet.
(d) Hands.

4. Whitman writes that whatever satisfies ________ is true, according to one of his poems.
(a) Gods.
(b) Society.
(c) Words.
(d) Souls.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman says that years of ____________ are transient and strange, though he says he too is one.

2. Which is the ancient country which Whitman seems to think is progressing into the future, much in the same way as America?

3. What causes Whitman to wander noiselessly and to bend over other sleepers, wandering and confused?

4. What does Whitman say was the year of struggle, the year when no dainty rhymes or sentimental loves verses were written?

5. What is piercing through the storm, piercing and pealing as the storm rises up?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. To whom does Whitman compare the country of old Ireland, in his poem to this land?

3. What is the lesson of the ebb of the ocean, according to the poem of Whitman?

4. To what are the tides of the ocean compared to in life, according to the poems of Whitman?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What are some of the signs of spring that Whitman lists in the poem, "Warble for Lilac-Time"?

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