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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 37-40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the poem which begins "forms, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts...."?
(a) Germs.
(b) Truths.
(c) Ideas.
(d) Notions.

2. What shape is Paumanok, according to the way that Whitman describes it in his poetry?
(a) Spiral.
(b) Square.
(c) Bean.
(d) Fish.

3. Who does Whitman describe as being lean and sinewy with muscular legs, thinly clothed, and well trained?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Runner.
(c) President.
(d) Pioneer.

4. Whitman says that years of ____________ are transient and strange, though he says he too is one.
(a) Ideas.
(b) Meteors.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Beauty.

5. Whitman writes that whatever satisfies ________ is true, according to one of his poems.
(a) Souls.
(b) Society.
(c) Gods.
(d) Words.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has been named with can not be countermanded in struggles and in wars?

2. Who does Whitman want to kiss him, to touch him on the lips as he touches those he loves?

3. To what state does Whitman promise to know very well after traveling to it?

4. What is one of the things which keeps Whitman up late at night, though he needs no assurances?

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

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