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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 32, “I think I could turn and live with animals, they’re so placid and” what?
(a) “Aware.”
(b) “Wise.”
(c) “Patient.”
(d) “Self-contain’d.”

2. What does the narrator call those on guard when he tells them to “Look to your arms!” in Section 37?
(a) Laggards.
(b) Mockers.
(c) Fibbers.
(d) Whiners.

3. The poet describes “considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand just as curious as any” what, in Section 41?
(a) “Bible.”
(b) “Child.”
(c) “Revelation.”
(d) “Woman.”

4. The narrator says in Section 45, “My lovers suffocate me, Crowding my lips, thick in the” what?
(a) “Gaze of my eyes.”
(b) “Pores of my skin.”
(c) “Touch of my hand.”
(d) “Thoughts of my mind.”

5. Of animals, the poet says in Section 32, “Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of” what?
(a) “Owning things.”
(b) “Loving peace.”
(c) “Religious boundaries.”
(d) “Earning a wage.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The poet describes outbidding what “old cautious” characters in Section 41?

2. The poet proclaims in Section 42, “This is the city and I am one of the” what?

3. Section 45 begins, “O span of youth! Ever-push’d” what?

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

5. The poet writes in Section 48, “And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed before” what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How is the motif of the journey described in Section 46 of the poem?

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

7. With what characters does the narrator relate in Section 37?

8. How are “youth” and “age” described in Section 45?

9. What is the purpose of the religious allusion in Sections 41 and 42 of the poem?

10. What have the “sentries” done, according to the narrator in Section 28?

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