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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 26-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From Whitman's breast, he says that he has concealed confession drops. What color are these drops?
(a) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) Clear.
(d) Red.

2. What will Whitman plant as thick as trees along all the rivers of America and along the shores of all the great lakes?
(a) Patriotism.
(b) Shrubs.
(c) Honor.
(d) Companionship.

3. The child and her father are looking in the _____ at the autumn skin in "On the Beach at Night."
(a) East.
(b) North.
(c) West.
(d) South.

4. What is the one thing that Whitman says the President has not learned of during his life so far?
(a) Nature.
(b) Honor.
(c) Justice.
(d) Bravery.

5. What does Whitman say that he will expose when he runs his furrow with his plough and press his spade through the sod?
(a) Vegetables.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Foul meat.
(d) Roots.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is Whitman referring when he talks about the estuary which enlarges and spread itself grandly in the great sea?

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

3. For how many years in Manhattan has Whitman watched the parades of soldiers through the city?

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

5. Who asks Whitman to sing a song that no poet has yet to have chanted?

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