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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 does Whitman say that Ireland once was before she leaned and became tattered on the ground?
(a) Goddess.
(b) Story.
(c) Ship.
(d) Queen.

2. Who is singing the song, a husky song as the main character in the poem walks on the beach at night alone?
(a) Mother.
(b) Sister.
(c) Father.
(d) Brother.

3. Who asks Whitman to sing a song that no poet has yet to have chanted?
(a) A flower.
(b) The grass.
(c) Muse.
(d) God.

4. What does Whitman beckon to sound clearer in and through the atmosphere?
(a) Throat.
(b) Birds.
(c) Poems.
(d) Eyes.

5. Though Whitman says he paints myriads of heads, he also says that he paints head without a ________.
(a) Green crown.
(b) Golden nimbus of light.
(c) Purple coloring.
(d) Smile.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman addresses the reader in "To You," telling the reader he fears they are walking the walks of _____________.

2. What causes the soldiers to fall into step and to arm themselves?

3. Even those, Whitman says, that know unrequited ________ can sleep, as do prisoners.

4. Whitman says that he often looks up at the perfect __________ of the stars during walks in the night.

5. Who does Whitman say that he does not forget, not in the summer or in the winter?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Whitman wish he had the chance to do for the United States as it makes its impact in the world?

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

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

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