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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ___________ are able to convey nature, enjoy materialism, become orators, and create from their own experiences.
(a) Women.
(b) Mediums.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Politicians.

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

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

4. Who asks Whitman to sing a song that no poet has yet to have chanted?
(a) God.
(b) The grass.
(c) Muse.
(d) A flower.

5. Who does Whitman want to kiss him, to touch him on the lips as he touches those he loves?
(a) His lover.
(b) A wave.
(c) Paumanok.
(d) His mother.

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

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

8. Who does Whitman say that is is close with, murmuring alike reproachfully rolling sands and drift?
(a) Rivers.
(b) Oceans.
(c) Forests.
(d) Children.

9. For what time of the year does Whitman write a warble, in the form of a poem for in the "Autumn Rivulets" section?
(a) Spring.
(b) Lilac.
(c) Winter.
(d) Autumn.

10. What does Whitman say that one should hold up sternly in order for it to send something back?
(a) Hand mirror.
(b) Boat.
(c) Parchment.
(d) Feather.

11. The United States is seen as ________ with equality in the eyes of their mother, according to Whitman.
(a) Children.
(b) Eagles.
(c) Cubs.
(d) Partners.

12. What is the title of the poem which begins "forms, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts...."?
(a) Truths.
(b) Notions.
(c) Germs.
(d) Ideas.

13. Whitman says that he sings the songs of the glory of ___________, not God.
(a) Words.
(b) None.
(c) Earth.
(d) Nature.

14. To whom is Whitman referring when he talks about the estuary which enlarges and spread itself grandly in the great sea?
(a) Time.
(b) His father.
(c) His words.
(d) Old age.

15. Whitman is clear that he is giving his spirit to ___________, though he does not mention him by name.
(a) Jehovah.
(b) Buddha.
(c) Christ.
(d) Satan.

Short Answer Questions

1. The metaphor of __________ is used in relation to the plowman, tilling to life, while the harvester harvests in the end.

2. What are NOT one of the images of people who sleep well, which Whitman includes in his poems for comparison?

3. What kind of birds fly together, interlocking their claws and beating their wings as one in the poem Whitman includes?

4. Whitman says that he often looks up at the perfect __________ of the stars during walks in the night.

5. Who does Whitman describe as sitting in the middle of the prison and causing a scene?

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