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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is being carried in loads on the “slow-drawn wagon” in Section 9?
2. In the conclusion of Section 6, the narrator states that “to die is different from what any one supposed, and” what?
3. How many horses is “the negro” driving in Section 13?
4. The narrator says in Section 10 that while he wanders “alone in the wilds and mountains” he is amazed at his own what?
5. The narrator claims in Section 20, “I laugh at what you call” what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the “twenty-ninth bather” represent metaphorically in Section 11?
2. What is the poet’s implication with the following lines from Section 4: “There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now”?
3. How does the poet relate the quality of “aroma” and of the air in Section 2?
4. What comparison of women and men is made by the poet in Section 21?
5. What imagery is the focus of Section 11 of the poem?
6. How does the poet relate with the “wild gander” in Section 14?
7. What “characters” does the poet embody in Section 10?
8. What does Walt Whitman praise and celebrate in Section 23 of the poem?
9. What is signified by these lines from Section 1: “I loafe and invite my soul, / I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass”?
10. After calling out to the Earth in Section 21, what does Whitman address in Section 22?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the setting of the country barn and the poet’s depiction of harvest time in Section 9. What is being loaded on the wagon and how what symbolism does this crop imply? How is the crop related to the other symbolic motifs in the poem?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss the marriage of the trapper to the “red girl” in Section 10. What is the implied cultural history of the bride and her family? How does the poet describe the customs of the Native Americans in this section of the poem?
Essay Topic 3
Define “religious allusion” in literature and give examples of religious allusion in the poem. Where does the poet’s wording borderline upon Christian or other religious texts? Why does Whitman choose to incorporate religious allusion in the poem?
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