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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 27.
(b) 28.
(c) 18.
(d) 37.

2. Who does Whitman answer for when he takes the young man's hands in his own?
(a) His mother.
(b) God.
(c) His brother.
(d) His sister.

3. What color is the water in the poem, "In Cabin'd Ships at Sea," as it moves around the boat?
(a) Gray.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Black.

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

5. Who does Whitman consider to be dear and dreadful to the earth, as he writes in one of his poems?
(a) Sages.
(b) Beginners.
(c) Truth tellers.
(d) Women.

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

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

8. Who does Whitman not want to shut their proud doors to him, as stated in a poem of that same idea?
(a) Libraries.
(b) Armies.
(c) Churches.
(d) Schools.

9. With another man, Whitman writes, he dilates and fuses the immortal laws and makes himself by them the _______ unto himself.
(a) Love.
(b) Truth.
(c) Honor.
(d) Law.

10. What shape is Paumanok, according to the way that Whitman describes it in his poetry?
(a) Fish.
(b) Spiral.
(c) Bean.
(d) Square.

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

12. "Carry me when you go forth over land or sea; For thus merely ______________ you is enough, is best."
(a) Feeling.
(b) Breathing.
(c) Knowing.
(d) Touching.

13. Whitman says that he was offering too long to feed his soul with __________, which was clearly not a good idea..
(a) Truths.
(b) Questions.
(c) Answers.
(d) Standards.

14. Who does Whitman profess to folding in every leaf of his poetry in order to celebrate the sea?
(a) Mariners.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Poets.
(d) Sea serpents.

15. What has been named with can not be countermanded in struggles and in wars?
(a) Death.
(b) Birth.
(c) Truth.
(d) Goal.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is NOT a word which is used to describe the poets Whitman says are still to come in the world?

3. Once a state is fully enslaved, according to Whitman, no nation, state, city, of the Earth can resume its ____________.

4. The ___________ cheerfully braves the winter, says Whitman when he addresses this group, the snow and ice welcoming him.

5. What did Whitman once feel was impassive, ample, and spheric in nature, though he is changing his mind?

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