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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The poet announces in Section 40, “To any one dying, thither I speed and twist” what?
(a) “The hand of the attic.”
(b) “The knob of the door.”
(c) “The knife in the wound.”
(d) “The sword in the cloud.”

2. The poet states in Section 27, “I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am” what?
(a) “Saddened.”
(b) “Curious.”
(c) “Amazed.”
(d) “Happy.”

3. The narrator says in Section 25, “My voice goes after what my” what “cannot reach”?
(a) “Eyes.”
(b) “Nose.”
(c) “Fingertips.”
(d) “Lips.”

4. The poet proclaims in Section 42, “This is the city and I am one of the” what?
(a) “Leaders.”
(b) “Caretakers.”
(c) “Citizens.”
(d) “Children.”

5. The poet tells the dying in Section 40, “I dilate you with” what?
(a) “Extreme scorn.”
(b) “Piercing stare.”
(c) “Lashing words.”
(d) “Tremendous breath.”

6. What are described as “making a rush for my veins” in Section 28?
(a) “Curtains of gold.”
(b) “Winds of worry.”
(c) “Chariots of fire.”
(d) “Flames and ether.”

7. What instrument is described as “the young man’s heart’s complaint” in Section 26?
(a) The clarinet.
(b) The flute.
(c) The violoncello.
(d) The bass.

8. The narrator contends that he is the teacher of what, in the opening of Section 47?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Athletes.
(d) Historians.

9. “Behavior” is described as “lawless” as what in Section 39?
(a) “Raindrops.”
(b) “Snow-flakes.”
(c) “Falling leaves.”
(d) “Rapid rivers.”

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

11. Of animals, the poet says in Section 32, “Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of” what?
(a) “Owning things.”
(b) “Loving peace.”
(c) “Earning a wage.”
(d) “Religious boundaries.”

12. The poet asserts in Section 25, “Come now I will not be tantalized, you conceive too much of” what?
(a) “Beauty.”
(b) “Willingness.”
(c) “Articulation.”
(d) “Godliness.”

13. In the final lines of Section 25, the poet claims, “Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof and every thing else in my” what?
(a) “Face.”
(b) “Body.”
(c) “Mind.”
(d) “Spirit.”

14. What Norse god does Whitman describe in Section 41?
(a) Odin.
(b) Osiris.
(c) Belus.
(d) Brahma.

15. The poet begins Section 41 with the statement, “I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs, And for strong upright men I bring” what?
(a) “Oceans and sunlight.”
(b) “Yet more needed help.”
(c) “Anchors and bridges.”
(d) “Craters and volumes.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The poet claims in Section 48 that “whoever walks a furlong without” what “walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud”?

2. The narrator says in Section 34 that he will now tell what he knew in what location in early youth?

3. The narrator claims in Section 73, “Not a youngster is taken for” what, “but I go up too, and am tried and sentenced”?

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

5. The poet writes in Section 48, “And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed before” what?

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