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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 26-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whitman points out that it is not on the reader that they alone have ___________ which fall on them
(a) Trust.
(b) Pain.
(c) Anger.
(d) Dark patches.

2. The metaphor of __________ is used in relation to the plowman, tilling to life, while the harvester harvests in the end.
(a) Death.
(b) Regeneration.
(c) Birth.
(d) Cycles.

3. Who does Whitman want to kiss him, to touch him on the lips as he touches those he loves?
(a) Paumanok.
(b) His mother.
(c) His lover.
(d) A wave.

4. It is the engineer's joy to go with the _____________ in his days.
(a) Cars.
(b) Locomotive.
(c) Coal.
(d) Track.

5. Where does Whitman say there are beautiful hills which should be recognized as such?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Maine.
(d) Amsterdam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will return as the ocean of life begins to ebb away from the shore, according to Whitman?

2. What does Whitman say the man is now that he has tears in his face at the sight of the waters?

3. Whitman asks in his poems who may have learned the ______________ of the lessons that he has to teach.

4. Who does Whitman describe as being lean and sinewy with muscular legs, thinly clothed, and well trained?

5. Who asks Whitman to sing a song that no poet has yet to have chanted?

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