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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Whitman stop in order to satisfy his curiosity about what is inside?
(a) The Congress.
(b) The hospital.
(c) City Dead House.
(d) The Farm.

3. Whitman asks in his poems who may have learned the ______________ of the lessons that he has to teach.
(a) Broadness.
(b) Completeness.
(c) Truth.
(d) Details.

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

5. What does Whitman say was the year of struggle, the year when no dainty rhymes or sentimental loves verses were written?
(a) 1841.
(b) 1851.
(c) 1821.
(d) 1861.

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

7. What color is the halo in the sky, drooping upon the sea in the description of the water?
(a) Black.
(b) Blue.
(c) Green.
(d) Brown.

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

9. Whitman was seized by a spirit, held by an _________self out of the pride which causes him to utter poems.
(a) Amazing.
(b) Aggressive.
(c) Electric.
(d) Authentic.

10. From the sea of ________, Whitman says that he will collect and bring a windrow drift of weeds and shells.
(a) Patriotism.
(b) Time.
(c) Truth.
(d) Belief.

11. 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) Foul meat.
(c) Roots.
(d) Vegetables.

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

13. Whitman says that he is the sworn _______ of every dauntless rebel the world over, with songs of insurrection.
(a) Priest.
(b) Mystic.
(c) Poet.
(d) Chanter.

14. What color of hair does Whitman say that Ireland has now as she is changing from what she once was?
(a) Green.
(b) Red.
(c) White.
(d) Brown.

15. Whitman says that not a disembodied _________ can the weapons of tyrants let loose, but it stalks invisibly.
(a) Truth.
(b) Poem.
(c) Song.
(d) Spirit.

Short Answer Questions

1. The United States is seen as ________ with equality in the eyes of their mother, according to Whitman.

2. ___________ asks the soul to follow into an unknown territory without a guide and without a map.

3. What do mediums convey when they arrive and they are successful in the United States, according to Whitman?

4. Whitman includes a series of poems which pertain to forms of education from questions posed to _______ to tests and judgement.

5. Who does Whitman beckon to toil on, to harvest the products even though they are not alone in the fields?

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