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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. It is the engineer's joy to go with the _____________ in his days.
(a) Coal.
(b) Cars.
(c) Track.
(d) Locomotive.

2. What will return as the ocean of life begins to ebb away from the shore, according to Whitman?
(a) Light
(b) Flow.
(c) Sand.
(d) Green.

3. What did Whitman once feel was impassive, ample, and spheric in nature, though he is changing his mind?
(a) Hawaii.
(b) Earth.
(c) Moon.
(d) America.

4. What carry the filaments of the news of wars, deaths, losses, gains, passions, and of race?
(a) Telegraphs.
(b) Pigeons.
(c) Phones.
(d) Breezes.

5. Whitman wonders how the real _______ can ever die and be buried in the end?
(a) Person.
(b) Body.
(c) Book.
(d) Word.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman finds he is larger and better than he thought. He did not know he held so much ___________.

2. "Carry me when you go forth over land or sea; For thus merely ______________ you is enough, is best."

3. Whitman believes himself to be as trustful to his poems as a father is to his _______________.

4. What kind of headsman stands mask'd, clothed in red, with huge legs and strong naked arms?

5. Who is sultry with perfumes, with ample and flowing garments, florid with blood, hot with passion?

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