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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 41-44.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many “young men bathe by the shore,” according to the narrator in Section 11?
(a) 15.
(b) 6.
(c) 20.
(d) 28.

2. What Norse god does Whitman describe in Section 41?
(a) Belus.
(b) Osiris.
(c) Odin.
(d) Brahma.

3. To whom does the narrator say the sentries have left him helpless in Section 28?
(a) “A cutthroat gambler.”
(b) “A red marauder.”
(c) “God.”
(d) “The devil.”

4. Which word from Section 12 means “limber” or “flexible”?
(a) Lithe.
(b) Articulate.
(c) Rigid.
(d) Contralto.

5. The poet begins Section 41 with the statement, “I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs, And for strong upright men I bring” what?
(a) “Craters and volumes.”
(b) “Oceans and sunlight.”
(c) “Anchors and bridges.”
(d) “Yet more needed help.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What word used in the opening of Section 15 refers to the lowest female voice or voice part, intermediate between soprano and tenor?

2. What adjective describes the city’s houses in the beginning of Section 33?

3. What animal “walks to and fro on a limb overhead” in Section 33?

4. In Section 21, the poet claims, “I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the” what?

5. Who “sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron” in Section 15?

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