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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whitman writes in Section 1 of the poem that every what “belonging to me as good belongs to you”?
(a) “Religion.”
(b) “Atom.”
(c) “Element.”
(d) “Bible.”

2. How many suns does the narrator claim there are left in Section 2?
(a) Millions.
(b) But a few.
(c) A handful.
(d) Dozens.

3. The narrator describes “the little one” as sleeping where in the opening of Section 8?
(a) “The bathtub.”
(b) “The bed.”
(c) “A basket.”
(d) “Its cradle.”

4. The narrator states in Section 3, “I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the” what?
(a) “Beginning and the end.”
(b) “Rich and the poor.”
(c) “Good and evil.”
(d) “Chicken and the egg.”

5. The narrator compels the reader in Section 2 by stating, “Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess” what?
(a) “All the secrets of nature.”
(b) “The keys to humanity.”
(c) “Belief in a higher power.”
(d) “The origin of all poems.”

Short Answer Questions

1. In the conclusion of Section 6, the narrator states that “to die is different from what any one supposed, and” what?

2. How is the girl described that accompanies the youngster “up the bushy hill” in Section 8?

3. The narrator claims to “lean and loafe at my ease observing” what, in Section 1?

4. What question does the narrator say a child asked in Section 6?

5. As the narrator watches “the little one” sleeping in Section 8, he silently brushes away what with his hand?

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