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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. The narrator claims in Section 15, “The married and unmarried children ride home to their” what?
2. What question does the narrator say a child asked in Section 6?
3. The poet claims in Section 21 that “it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,” and that “there is nothing greater than” what?
4. The narrator describes “the little one” as sleeping where in the opening of Section 8?
5. The narrator says in Section 20, “Having pried through the strata, analyzed to a hair, counsel'd with doctors and calculated close, I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own” what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is “the negro” described in Section 13 of the poem?
2. What does the “twenty-ninth bather” represent metaphorically in Section 11?
3. What motif returns to the narrative in Section 6? How is this motif examined here?
4. With whom does the poet relate in the beginning of Section 16?
5. 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”?
6. What is Whitman’s “advice” to the reader in Section 11 of the poem?
7. What “characters” does the poet embody in Section 10?
8. What does Whitman conclude of the quality of “presence” in Section 3?
9. How is “the lunatic” described in Section 15 of the poem?
10. How does the poet’s delineation of “self” evolve in Section 5 of the poem?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Walt Whitman’s comparisons of those things that appear minute and/or mundane with those that appear vast and overshadowing. What is the poet’s point in these illustrations in Section 31? What conclusions does the poet reach?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Whitman’s exploration of the sense of touch in “Song of Myself.” How does the poet describe the touch of others? What symbols and motifs examine touch? What sexual descriptions does Whitman use regarding the sense of touch?
Essay Topic 3
Define “assonance” and “alliteration” and give examples of each in the poem. Why does the poet choose to employ these techniques? What effect to the commonality of the sounds have on the reader?
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