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

2. What “is drawn on the slip-noose” in Section 33?
(a) The sun.
(b) The ocean.
(c) The life-car.
(d) The phoenix.

3. The poet says in Section 46, “No friend of mine takes his ease” where?
(a) “In my chair.”
(b) “In my bed.”
(c) “On my land.”
(d) “On my porch.”

4. The poet says in Section 44, “I am an acme of things accomplish’d, and I am an enclose of” what?
(a) “Things forgotten.”
(b) “The impossible.”
(c) “Things remembered.”
(d) “Things to be.”

5. 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) “Yet more needed help.”
(b) “Craters and volumes.”
(c) “Anchors and bridges.”
(d) “Oceans and sunlight.”

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator say in Section 40, “You seem to look for something at my hands”?

2. What creature “in his tough pimples sleeps by the bayou” in Section 33?

3. The poet announces in Section 40, “To any one dying, thither I speed and twist” what?

4. What “is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels,” in Section 31?

5. Of whom does the narrator say he “is closest to me, he knows me well” in Section 47?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way is the concept of “rebirth” illustrated in Section 38?

2. Why and how does Whitman turn to the sense of sound in Section 26?

3. What war is described in Sections 35 and 36? How does the poet describe the aftermath of the battle?

4. To what are flames compared in Section 28? Why?

5. What sense and expression is discussed in the opening of Section 25?

6. Where does the poet “stand” in Section 44? What conclusion has he reached?

7. With what “characters” does the poet relate in Sections 47 and 48 of the poem?

8. Which of the five senses is introduced in Section 27? What animal is cited in this section?

9. With what individuals does the poet relate in Section 33?

10. What reaction does the poet have to his circumstances in the opening of Section 38?

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