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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The poet asks the reader in the opening of Section 35, “Would you hear of an old-time” what?
(a) “Swamp fight?”
(b) “Land fight?”
(c) “Sky-fight?”
(d) “Sea-fight?”

2. The poet proclaims in Section 44, “What is known I” do what to?
(a) “Strip away.”
(b) “Spit at.”
(c) “Step on.”
(d) “Hate.”

3. Who is described with the line, “Wherever he goes men and women accept and desire him” in Section 39?
(a) “The saintly priest.”
(b) “The friendly and flowing savage.”
(c) “The ancient warrior.”
(d) “The god of the shepherds.”

4. The poet describes taking himself “the exact dimensions of” whom, in Section 41?
(a) Odin.
(b) Hercules.
(c) Jehovah.
(d) Zeus.

5. The narrator tells “the tale of the murder in cold blood of” how many young men in Section 34?
(a) 277.
(b) 363.
(c) 194.
(d) 412.

6. Which of the five senses does the narrator address in Section 29?
(a) “Smell.”
(b) “Taste.”
(c) “Touch.”
(d) “Sound.”

7. The narrator asserts in Section 31 that “the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all” what?
(a) “Civilization.”
(b) “Science.”
(c) “Insects.”
(d) “Machinery.”

8. The poet describes coming again upon the earth after how many years in Section 43?
(a) 500.
(b) 15,000.
(c) 2,500.
(d) 5,000.

9. The poet describes outbidding what “old cautious” characters in Section 41?
(a) Hucksters.
(b) Scuttlers.
(c) Visionaries.
(d) Sailors.

10. The narrator claims in Section 73, “Not a youngster is taken for” what, “but I go up too, and am tried and sentenced”?
(a) “Larceny.”
(b) “Heresy.”
(c) “Bigotry.”
(d) “Adultery.”

11. What word does Whitman use in Section 43 to refer to a Mesoamerican pyramid surmounted by a temple?
(a) Elocutionist.
(b) Pismire.
(c) Teokallis.
(d) Olypmus.

12. The poet claims in Section 47, “I swear I will never again mention” what “inside a house”?
(a) “Religion or politics.”
(b) “Love or death.”
(c) “Fact or fiction.”
(d) “News or gossip.”

13. To what does the narrator say in Section 40, “You seem to look for something at my hands”?
(a) “Wind.”
(b) “Earth.”
(c) “Fire.”
(d) “Water.”

14. What animal “walks to and fro on a limb overhead” in Section 33?
(a) The bird.
(b) The squirrel.
(c) The panther.
(d) The lemur.

15. The poet writes in Section 48, “And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed before” what?
(a) “The minister and judge.”
(b) “A million universes.”
(c) “The fire of Satan.”
(d) “The face of God.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What “is drawn on the slip-noose” in Section 33?

2. The narrator claims in Section 26 that the “orchestra whirls me wider than” what?

3. “Behavior” is described as “lawless” as what in Section 39?

4. What creature “is whistling betwixt the woods and the wheatlot” in Section 33?

5. What creature “suns his flabby length on a rock” in Section 33?

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