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

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

3. What is the city of orgies, according to Whitman's poem of the same name?
(a) Newark.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) Boston.
(d) Chicago.

4. With another man, Whitman writes, he dilates and fuses the immortal laws and makes himself by them the _______ unto himself.
(a) Love.
(b) Honor.
(c) Truth.
(d) Law.

5. Who does Whitman point out are subordinated at their tasks during "Calamus"?
(a) No one.
(b) Women.
(c) Men.
(d) Children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Whitman answer for when he takes the young man's hands in his own?

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

3. What carry the filaments of the news of wars, deaths, losses, gains, passions, and of race?

4. Whitman believes that in his journey, the _________ is not the only thing that is there.

5. Once a state is fully enslaved, according to Whitman, no nation, state, city, of the Earth can resume its ____________.

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