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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 18-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who asks Whitman to sing a song that no poet has yet to have chanted?
(a) God.
(b) The grass.
(c) Muse.
(d) A flower.

2. Whitman proposes that grass is the ___________ of the Lord, when he contemplates it as a child.
(a) Handkerchief.
(b) Cup.
(c) Food.
(d) Blanket.

3. The child and her father are looking in the _____ at the autumn skin in "On the Beach at Night."
(a) North.
(b) South.
(c) West.
(d) East.

4. Who does Whitman say the person in the poem "Europe" was paid to do?
(a) Cross the water.
(b) Defile the People.
(c) Write the poems.
(d) Leave the land untouched.

5. Whitman says that not a disembodied _________ can the weapons of tyrants let loose, but it stalks invisibly.
(a) Spirit.
(b) Song.
(c) Poem.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is forever and ever, longer than soil is brown and solid, longer than water ebbs and flows?

2. Whitman realizes he was still not happen when he heard _________ and was received well at the capitol.

3. Whitman points out that it is not on the reader that they alone have ___________ which fall on them

4. What rose before Whitman when he was pondering his poetry in silence in this book?

5. Whitman says that years of ____________ are transient and strange, though he says he too is one.

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