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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Whitman answer for when he takes the young man's hands in his own?
(a) His brother.
(b) His sister.
(c) His mother.
(d) God.

2. What are houses and rooms full of? What are shelves crowded with according to Whitman?
(a) Perfumes.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Truth.
(d) Deceit.

3. The __________ has joy in inflating the chest, rolling the thunder of the voice, making the people rage, and leading America.
(a) President.
(b) Congressman.
(c) Orator.
(d) Lawyer.

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

5. Underneath all of the mysticism, what does Whitman say that he sees in the man for his comrade?
(a) Hope.
(b) Love.
(c) Honor.
(d) Strength.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is Whitman at the time of his writing his poems, noting this in his poems and that he is in good health?

3. Who does Whitman meet in the poem, "Eidolons," passing the hues and objects of the world?

4. In what state did Whitman see the live-oak growing, and named a poem after this occurrence?

5. Walt Whitman sees _______ exhaling from unexplored countries and savage types with bows and arrows.

(see the answer key)

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