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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. To what does Whitman say he is near at hand with a throat to inflate itself and sing joyfully?
(a) Ocean.
(b) Honor.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Nature.

4. Whitman addresses other countries who are striving to prove the puzzle of America, the athletic ______________.
(a) Ambition.
(b) Constitution.
(c) Grasses.
(d) Democracy.

5. During this section of the poems, what age does Whitman profess to being?
(a) 35.
(b) 42.
(c) 37.
(d) 41.

Short Answer Questions

1. What carry the filaments of the news of wars, deaths, losses, gains, passions, and of race?

2. Whose self does Whitman sing when he begins his collection of poems in this particular book?

3. What is described as never tiring, as being rude, silent, and incomprehensible at first?

4. Where did Whitman say that he sat studying the older times of American? The feet of ___________.

5. Whitman believes there is terrible doubt in _____________, there is uncertainty and the possibility of being deluded.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is so strange about the idea that Whitman is so fervently patriotic in the poems he has written? When was Whitman born in relation to the 'birth' of the United States?

2. What are some of the similar points of religions which Whitman points out for the reader?

3. What is the city which Whitman admires, though not for the pageantry and the wealth that exists in this city?

4. What is Whitman's stance on how he views individual people and who they are, an opinion which is repeated frequently?

5. What is the main reason why Whitman says that he enjoys Manhattan so much during his travels there?

6. What parts of the United States structure does Whitman have a lot of respect for?

7. What is one of the main criticisms of Whitman's poetry, as these graphic images come up in the poems quite frequently?

8. What does Whitman describe when he is talking about the experiences of his body in relation to another's body?

9. What are some of the poet's feelings about the idea of mortality, according to the poems he writes?

10. What does Whitman try to do for himself, instead of being completely engrossed by one belief system?

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