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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 that all heroic deeds were conceived in __________, as are all free poems.
(a) The open air.
(b) The soul.
(c) Church.
(d) God's hand.

2. Whitman expresses that he knows the __________ does not know how longingly he looked at them.
(a) Passing stranger.
(b) Woman.
(c) Old woman.
(d) Blade of grass.

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

4. What is flying aloft as the ship begins to go out into the sea in "The Ship Starting"?
(a) Ribbons.
(b) Pennants.
(c) Hopes.
(d) Hands.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What has been named with can not be countermanded in struggles and in wars?

3. What shape is Paumanok, according to the way that Whitman describes it in his poetry?

4. Whitman addresses other countries who are striving to prove the puzzle of America, the athletic ______________.

5. Whitman proposes that grass is the ___________ of the Lord, when he contemplates it as a child.

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