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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. Section 17 ends with the line, “This is the common air that bathes” what?
(a) “The body.”
(b) “The country.”
(c) “The globe.”
(d) “The county.”

2. The narrator claims to “lean and loafe at my ease observing” what, in Section 1?
(a) “A blooming spring flower.”
(b) “The falling flakes of snow.”
(c) “A falling autumn leaf.”
(d) “A spear of summer grass.”

3. The narrator asserts in Section 20, “In all people I see” what?
(a) “My sister.”
(b) “My father.”
(c) “My mother.”
(d) “Myself.”

4. The narrator claims in Section 15, “The married and unmarried children ride home to their” what?
(a) “Easter dinner.”
(b) “Christmas dinner.”
(c) “Thanksgiving dinner.”
(d) “Labor Day brunch.”

5. As the narrator watches “the little one” sleeping in Section 8, he silently brushes away what with his hand?
(a) Flies.
(b) Moths.
(c) Mosquitoes.
(d) Bats.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says that he sees “the elementary laws never” do what, in Section 20?

2. Where does the narrator say the “sharp-hoof’d moose” comes from in Section 14?

3. The narrator says in Section 14, “The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred” what?

4. With whom does the narrator describe spending “that day round the chowder-kettle” in Section 10?

5. The poet claims in Section 21 that “it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,” and that “there is nothing greater than” what?

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

3. With whom does the poet relate in the beginning of Section 16?

4. What new journey does the poet embark upon beginning in Section 8 of the poem?

5. For whom does Whitman describe playing victory marches in Section 18?

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

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

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

9. What is the poet’s implication with the following lines from Section 4: “There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now”?

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

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