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

2. What causes Whitman to wander noiselessly and to bend over other sleepers, wandering and confused?
(a) Stealth.
(b) Sickness.
(c) Insomnia.
(d) Nightly visions.

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

4. ___________ are able to convey nature, enjoy materialism, become orators, and create from their own experiences.
(a) Mediums.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Women.
(d) Teachers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Whitman say that he will expose when he runs his furrow with his plough and press his spade through the sod?

2. Who is in the curious trio with Whitman? This trio includes his _________ and his body, and himself.

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

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

5. What kind of birds fly together, interlocking their claws and beating their wings as one in the poem Whitman includes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Whitman question about the world when he sees the felons being shackled and held in the court?

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

6. Whose philosophies does Whitman respect without any exceptions, according to the writing?

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

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

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

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

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