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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose self does Whitman sing when he begins his collection of poems in this particular book?
(a) One's.
(b) Those.
(c) Him.
(d) Her.

2. Who is singing the varied carols which Whitman can hear as mentioned in a poem which reveals the answer?
(a) Criminals.
(b) America.
(c) Canada.
(d) Men.

3. Whitman ponders where he actually knows anything of his own ________ as he thinks about the biography of another.
(a) Needs.
(b) History.
(c) Message.
(d) Life.

4. What rose before Whitman when he was pondering his poetry in silence in this book?
(a) Phantom.
(b) Grass.
(c) Sun.
(d) Water.

5. How old is Whitman at the time of his writing his poems, noting this in his poems and that he is in good health?
(a) 18.
(b) 27.
(c) 37.
(d) 28.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the terrible perturbations of the suns, swelling, collapsing, and ending?

3. The ___________ is equal with the male according to Whitman in the first page of his poetry book?

4. Whitman wonders how the real _______ can ever die and be buried in the end?

5. Which sort of bird caused Whitman to stop and open listen to it opening its throat and joyfully singing?

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