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

2. The narrator claims in Section 33, “I am the hounded slave, I wince at the bite of” what?
(a) “The dogs.”
(b) “The snakes.”
(c) “Man.”
(d) “The bugs.”

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

4. Herds of what animals “make a crawling spread of the square miles far and near” in Section 33?
(a) Buffalo.
(b) Elk.
(c) Deer.
(d) Cattle.

5. The narrator tells “the tale of the murder in cold blood of” how many young men in Section 34?
(a) 412.
(b) 277.
(c) 194.
(d) 363.

Short Answer Questions

1. By whom does the narrator say he has been “given up” in Section 28?

2. The poet claims in Section 38, “I troop forth replenish'd with” what?

3. The narrator states in Section 46, “My signs are a rain-proof coat, good shoes, and” what?

4. What “send their old heat against my approach,” according to the poet in Section 31?

5. What archaic word in Section 31 refers to an ant?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the poet relate truth and nature in Sections 30 and 31?

3. How does Whitman address the faults of mankind in Section 32?

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

5. What setting does the narrator take the reader to in Section 34?

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

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

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

9. What does the poet question and attempt to answer in Section 40 of the poem?

10. What does the poet tell the world’s “priests” in Section 43?

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