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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is permanent, lurking there within the body, the only purport of thous art, the real I myself?
(a) Head.
(b) Body.
(c) Brain.
(d) Spirit.

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

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

6. What does Whitman say goes to and fro, seeking a livelihood, chattering, and chaffering?
(a) A worker.
(b) Shadow.
(c) Soul.
(d) His muse.

7. Who does Whitman meet in the poem, "Eidolons," passing the hues and objects of the world?
(a) Horse.
(b) Servant.
(c) Child.
(d) Seer.

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

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

10. Walt Whitman hears the rhythmic myths of the ____________, the strong legends of the Romans.
(a) Norse.
(b) Egyptians.
(c) Greeks.
(d) Germans.

11. Whitman believes himself to be as trustful to his poems as a father is to his _______________.
(a) Wife.
(b) Children.
(c) Family.
(d) Home.

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

13. 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) Song.
(c) Book.
(d) Belief.

14. 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) 28.
(b) 18.
(c) 27.
(d) 37.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman realizes he was still not happen when he heard _________ and was received well at the capitol.

2. What will Whitman plant as thick as trees along all the rivers of America and along the shores of all the great lakes?

3. Who is singing the varied carols which Whitman can hear as mentioned in a poem which reveals the answer?

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

5. Whitman ponders where he actually knows anything of his own ________ as he thinks about the biography of another.

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