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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To what state does Whitman promise to know very well after traveling to it?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Florida.
(c) Illinois.
(d) California.

3. To what does Whitman say he is near at hand with a throat to inflate itself and sing joyfully?
(a) Honor.
(b) Nature.
(c) Ocean.
(d) Democracy.

4. Who leaves natural breaths, the sounds of rains and winds, calls as the birds and animals in the woods?
(a) The Gods.
(b) The birds.
(c) The mothers.
(d) Red aborigines.

5. Whitman believes there is terrible doubt in _____________, there is uncertainty and the possibility of being deluded.
(a) Nature.
(b) Appearances.
(c) Children.
(d) Government.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are houses and rooms full of? What are shelves crowded with according to Whitman?

2. What is permanent, lurking there within the body, the only purport of thous art, the real I myself?

3. Whitman believes that all heroic deeds were conceived in __________, as are all free poems.

4. Whitman proposes that grass is the ___________ of the Lord, when he contemplates it as a child.

5. Whitman raises a _____________ hand to all who he mentions in his poem, making the signal to remain after him.

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