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

2. Whitman calls the ostent evanescent the substances of a/an _________ mood or savan's studies long.
(a) Artist's.
(b) Scientist's.
(c) Child's.
(d) Woman's.

3. Whitman believes there is terrible doubt in _____________, there is uncertainty and the possibility of being deluded.
(a) Children.
(b) Government.
(c) Nature.
(d) Appearances.

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

5. Where did Whitman say that he sat studying the older times of American? The feet of ___________.
(a) Mary.
(b) Jesus.
(c) God.
(d) The great masters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman wonders how the real _______ can ever die and be buried in the end?

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

3. Whitman finds he is larger and better than he thought. He did not know he held so much ___________.

4. It is the engineer's joy to go with the _____________ in his days.

5. Whitman says that he was offering too long to feed his soul with __________, which was clearly not a good idea..

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Whitman think about seeing the world through someone else's eyes, even if it is through the eyes of a poet?

2. Where was Whitman born, and how does that place affect him?

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

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

5. What does Whitman say when someone else is present with his body? What changes?

6. Why does Whitman warn the readers about the dangers of religion and those who are enamored of it?

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

8. What does Whitman describe his understanding of Adam's first experience when walking in the Garden of Eden?

9. What can be determined about Whitman's life experiences by the reading of the many poems which Whitman has crafted about the water?

10. How does Whitman describe the touches of the lover as they are making love in the grass with each other?

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