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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. By whom does the narrator say he has been “given up” in Section 28?
(a) “Priests.”
(b) “God.”
(c) “Pillagers.”
(d) “Traitors.”

2. What instrument is described as “the young man’s heart’s complaint” in Section 26?
(a) The clarinet.
(b) The flute.
(c) The violoncello.
(d) The bass.

3. What are described as “making a rush for my veins” in Section 28?
(a) “Winds of worry.”
(b) “Curtains of gold.”
(c) “Chariots of fire.”
(d) “Flames and ether.”

4. Three of what are “whizzing in a row from three lusty angels with shirts bagg'd out at their waists” in Section 41?
(a) “Brooms.”
(b) “Whips.”
(c) “Scythes.”
(d) “Scarves.”

5. According to the poet in Section 31, what “would adorn the parlors of heaven”?
(a) “Orange tulips.”
(b) “White roses.”
(c) “Alpine strawberries.”
(d) “The running blackberry.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Of animals, the poet says in Section 32, “Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of” what?

2. To whom does the poet say “I might tell how I like you, but cannot” in Section 40?

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

4. What does the poet refer to as “the sound I love,” in Section 26?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is implied of “the journey” of life in Section 44?

2. What is the central message in Section 29 of the poem?

3. How does Whitman address the vastness of the world in Section 33?

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

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

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

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

8. What events take place in the battle described in Section 34 of the poem?

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

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

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