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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whitman wonders how the real _______ can ever die and be buried in the end?
(a) Book.
(b) Person.
(c) Word.
(d) Body.

2. What sort of song does Whitman say he will sing in the sixth inscription of the book's opening?
(a) Truth.
(b) Companionship.
(c) Leaves.
(d) Patriotism.

3. Whitman calls the ostent evanescent the substances of a/an _________ mood or savan's studies long.
(a) Child's.
(b) Artist's.
(c) Woman's.
(d) Scientist's.

4. Whitman addresses other countries who are striving to prove the puzzle of America, the athletic ______________.
(a) Grasses.
(b) Constitution.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Ambition.

5. Who does Whitman consider to be dear and dreadful to the earth, as he writes in one of his poems?
(a) Truth tellers.
(b) Beginners.
(c) Sages.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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. What is flying aloft as the ship begins to go out into the sea in "The Ship Starting"?

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