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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. What Norse god does Whitman describe in Section 41?
(a) Brahma.
(b) Belus.
(c) Odin.
(d) Osiris.

2. What advice does the narrator give to the “dear son” in Section 46?
(a) “Imagine the future.”
(b) “Buck up and get ready.”
(c) “Shoulder your duds.”
(d) “Face the east.”

3. What creature “is whistling betwixt the woods and the wheatlot” in Section 33?
(a) The quail.
(b) The finch.
(c) The pheasant.
(d) The hawk.

4. What word does Whitman use in Section 43 to refer to a Mesoamerican pyramid surmounted by a temple?
(a) Elocutionist.
(b) Teokallis.
(c) Pismire.
(d) Olypmus.

5. What animal “walks to and fro on a limb overhead” in Section 33?
(a) The squirrel.
(b) The lemur.
(c) The panther.
(d) The bird.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is referred to as “a chef-d’oeuvre for the highest” in Section 31?

2. Who is described as the son of Kronos in Section 41?

3. The poet says in Section 46, “No friend of mine takes his ease” where?

4. What “is drawn on the slip-noose” in Section 33?

5. “Words” are described as being as “simple as” what, in Section 39?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the poet remark about animals in the opening of Section 32?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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