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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 finds he is larger and better than he thought. He did not know he held so much ___________.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Truth.
(d) Goodness.

2. Whitman believes himself to be as trustful to his poems as a father is to his _______________.
(a) Wife.
(b) Family.
(c) Children.
(d) Home.

3. What is permanent, lurking there within the body, the only purport of thous art, the real I myself?
(a) Head.
(b) Spirit.
(c) Body.
(d) Brain.

4. Whitman realizes he was still not happen when he heard _________ and was received well at the capitol.
(a) His poem.
(b) His name.
(c) Silence.
(d) His voice.

5. What does Whitman say goes to and fro, seeking a livelihood, chattering, and chaffering?
(a) A worker.
(b) His muse.
(c) Shadow.
(d) Soul.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of song does Whitman say he will sing in the sixth inscription of the book's opening?

2. Whitman believes there is terrible doubt in _____________, there is uncertainty and the possibility of being deluded.

3. Whitman ponders where he actually knows anything of his own ________ as he thinks about the biography of another.

4. What did Whitman used to pull up from the water when he lived in his hometown during the summer months?

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

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