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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 18-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is described as never tiring, as being rude, silent, and incomprehensible at first?
(a) Earth.
(b) Love.
(c) Faith.
(d) Moon.

2. Whitman is not only considering the idea of death, but also of chanting the chant of ___________.
(a) Truth.
(b) Battles.
(c) Allegiance.
(d) Honor.

3. What is forever and ever, longer than soil is brown and solid, longer than water ebbs and flows?
(a) Faith.
(b) Family.
(c) Religion.
(d) Soul.

4. What do the lovers who exit the room after the night leave over baskets, swelling the house with their plenty?
(a) White towels.
(b) Birds.
(c) Money.
(d) Words.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The __________ has joy in inflating the chest, rolling the thunder of the voice, making the people rage, and leading America.

2. What rose before Whitman when he was pondering his poetry in silence in this book?

3. Whitman believes that the words of true ________ do not merely please those who read them.

4. To what does Whitman say he is near at hand with a throat to inflate itself and sing joyfully?

5. With another man, Whitman writes, he dilates and fuses the immortal laws and makes himself by them the _______ unto himself.

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