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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 5-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the lovers who exit the room after the night leave over baskets, swelling the house with their plenty?
(a) Money.
(b) White towels.
(c) Birds.
(d) Words.

2. Which sort of bird caused Whitman to stop and open listen to it opening its throat and joyfully singing?
(a) Robin.
(b) He-bird.
(c) Song dove.
(d) She-bird.

3. What does Whitman say goes to and fro, seeking a livelihood, chattering, and chaffering?
(a) Soul.
(b) Shadow.
(c) A worker.
(d) His muse.

4. Whitman believes that the words of true ________ do not merely please those who read them.
(a) Books.
(b) Myths.
(c) Stories.
(d) Poems.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of song does Whitman say he will sing in the sixth inscription of the book's opening?

2. Who does Whitman consider to be dear and dreadful to the earth, as he writes in one of his poems?

3. In what state did Whitman see the live-oak growing, and named a poem after this occurrence?

4. Whitman says he will make a true ________ which will earn for the body and mind whatever sticks and does not droop in death.

5. Whitman is not only considering the idea of death, but also of chanting the chant of ___________.

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