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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Even those, Whitman says, that know unrequited ________ can sleep, as do prisoners.
(a) Loss.
(b) Love.
(c) Death.
(d) Patience.

2. At what time of the day is the soul allowed to be most free, according to Whitman in his own findings?
(a) Dawn.
(b) Dusk.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Noon.

3. The combination of justice and God, according to Whitman, can be blended together to make an immortal ___________.
(a) Reality.
(b) Armistice.
(c) Government.
(d) Story.

4. Who does Whitman say the person in the poem "Europe" was paid to do?
(a) Cross the water.
(b) Write the poems.
(c) Leave the land untouched.
(d) Defile the People.

5. What occurs once at sunrise and once at sunset, according to Whitman as he describes nature?
(a) A fading light.
(b) A musical call.
(c) A brightening light.
(d) Nothing.

6. What do mediums convey when they arrive and they are successful in the United States, according to Whitman?
(a) Truth.
(b) Lies.
(c) Half truths.
(d) Gospel.

7. When Whitman talks about Christianity, with whom does he commiserate within his poems on the topic?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Joseph.
(c) Peter.
(d) Mary.

8. Whitman includes a series of poems which pertain to forms of education from questions posed to _______ to tests and judgement.
(a) Students.
(b) Senators.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Principals.

9. Whitman appears to have some sort of connection to _________ and to prostitutes, trying to understand them.
(a) Beggars.
(b) Felons.
(c) Missionaries.
(d) Farmers.

10. What was Whitman's voice like when he sang late in the night, according to his writing?
(a) Joyful.
(b) Low.
(c) Sad.
(d) Whispered.

11. The metaphor of __________ is used in relation to the plowman, tilling to life, while the harvester harvests in the end.
(a) Cycles.
(b) Death.
(c) Birth.
(d) Regeneration.

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

13. What are the felons wearing when they come into the courtroom as Whitman watches them out of curiosity?
(a) Orange suits.
(b) Hats.
(c) Blue jump suits.
(d) Shackles.

14. Whitman says that he often looks up at the perfect __________ of the stars during walks in the night.
(a) Silence.
(b) Honor.
(c) Glow.
(d) Truth.

15. When the child went forth, what happened to him every day? He became the ____________ he looked at.
(a) First tear.
(b) First animal.
(c) First thought.
(d) First object.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman says that not a disembodied _________ can the weapons of tyrants let loose, but it stalks invisibly.

2. Whitman was seized by a spirit, held by an _________self out of the pride which causes him to utter poems.

3. Whitman says that he sings the songs of the glory of ___________, not God.

4. Which is the ancient country which Whitman seems to think is progressing into the future, much in the same way as America?

5. Whitman says that years of ____________ are transient and strange, though he says he too is one.

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