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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whitman ponders where he actually knows anything of his own ________ as he thinks about the biography of another.
(a) History.
(b) Needs.
(c) Life.
(d) Message.

3. Whitman believes there is terrible doubt in _____________, there is uncertainty and the possibility of being deluded.
(a) Children.
(b) Nature.
(c) Government.
(d) Appearances.

4. Who does Whitman see eating the bread of his last supper in the midst of youths and old persons?
(a) Christ.
(b) A death row inmate.
(c) Mary.
(d) A homeless man.

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

6. How old is Whitman at the time of his writing his poems, noting this in his poems and that he is in good health?
(a) 18.
(b) 27.
(c) 28.
(d) 37.

7. The ___________ is equal with the male according to Whitman in the first page of his poetry book?
(a) River.
(b) Female.
(c) Country.
(d) Tree.

8. Whitman says he will make a true ________ which will earn for the body and mind whatever sticks and does not droop in death.
(a) Poem.
(b) Book.
(c) Song.
(d) Belief.

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

10. What did Whitman used to pull up from the water when he lived in his hometown during the summer months?
(a) Lobster pots.
(b) Seaweed.
(c) Fish traps.
(d) Netting.

11. What are houses and rooms full of? What are shelves crowded with according to Whitman?
(a) Truth.
(b) Deceit.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Perfumes.

12. Where did Whitman say that he sat studying the older times of American? The feet of ___________.
(a) The great masters.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Mary.
(d) God.

13. "You furnish your parts toward eternity, Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the ________."
(a) End.
(b) Answer.
(c) Truth.
(d) Soul.

14. Who does Whitman point out are subordinated at their tasks during "Calamus"?
(a) Children.
(b) No one.
(c) Men.
(d) Women.

15. To what state does Whitman promise to know very well after traveling to it?
(a) California.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Florida.
(d) Illinois.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose self does Whitman sing when he begins his collection of poems in this particular book?

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

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

4. Whitman expresses that he knows the __________ does not know how longingly he looked at them.

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

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