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

2. What does the narrator bring to the runaway slave when he encounters him in Section 10?
(a) A tub of water.
(b) A bale of hay.
(c) An old dog.
(d) A letter.

3. Where does the narrator say the “sharp-hoof’d moose” comes from in Section 14?
(a) The west.
(b) The east.
(c) The north.
(d) The south.

4. What adjective does the narrator use in describing the summer morning in Section 5?
(a)
(b) “Boiling.”
(c) “Retrograde.”
(d) “Transparent.”

5. The narrator claims in Section 14, “What is commonest, cheapest, nearest, easiest, is” what?
(a) “God.”
(b) “Me.”
(c) “William.”
(d) “Peter.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Of “these thoughts,” the narrator says “If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are” what, in Section 17?

2. Whose proper name is stated in the poem in the beginning of Section 24?

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

4. The narrator compares months to what in Section 20?

5. Who is described “with grimed and hairy chests” environing the anvil in Section 12?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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”?

4. What does Whitman conclude of the quality of “presence” in Section 3?

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

6. What comparison of women and men is made by the poet in Section 21?

7. How does the poet’s delineation of “self” evolve in Section 5 of the poem?

8. How does the poet relate with the “wild gander” in Section 14?

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

10. How is “the negro” described in Section 13 of the poem?

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