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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. In the conclusion of Section 6, the narrator states that “to die is different from what any one supposed, and” what?
(a) “Luckier.”
(b) “Painful.”
(c) “Pacifying.”
(d) “Quicker.”

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

3. The narrator asks the reader in Section 2, “Have you reckon’d” how many acres?
(a) 640.
(b) 320.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 160.

4. Who does the narrator ask in Section 13, “What is it that you express in your eyes?”
(a) The goats.
(b) The cows.
(c) The horses.
(d) The oxen.

5. In describing his body in Section 3, the narrator claims, “Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is” what?
(a) “Immune.”
(b) “Vile.”
(c) “Diseased.”
(d) “Without pain.”

Short Answer Questions

1. In Section 21, the poet claims, “I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the” what?

2. The narrator compels the reader in Section 2 by stating, “Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess” what?

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

4. The narrator claims that “size is only” what, in Section 21?

5. To what does the narrator say “the other I am not must not abase itself to you” in Section 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. What foreshadowing is exhibited in Section 1 of the poem? How is the universal “I” set up in this section?

2. What imagery is the focus of Section 11 of the poem?

3. How does Section 13 begin? What is the focus of this section of the poem?

4. What does Walt Whitman praise and celebrate in Section 23 of the poem?

5. How have critics and scholars interpreted the following sexually implicit lines in Section 5: “How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me”?

6. Whom does the poet invite to eat the meal in Section 19?

7. What does the “twenty-ninth bather” represent metaphorically in Section 11?

8. How does the poet relate the quality of “aroma” and of the air in Section 2?

9. What is the metaphorical meaning in the following lines from Section 7: “Has any one supposed it lucky to be born? / I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.”?

10. How does the poet define “I” and “you” in response to his own questions in Section 20?

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