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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Section 45 begins, “O span of youth! Ever-push’d” what?
(a) “Discovery!”
(b) “Elasticity!”
(c) “Adolescence!”
(d) “Boundaries!”

2. The narrator describes the judge in Section 26 as “with hands tight to the desk, his pallid lips pronouncing” what?
(a) “A death-sentence.”
(b) “Community service.”
(c) “A life-sentence.”
(d) “A minimum sentence.”

3. The poet tells the dying in Section 40, “I dilate you with” what?
(a) “Tremendous breath.”
(b) “Lashing words.”
(c) “Piercing stare.”
(d) “Extreme scorn.”

4. What are described as “making a rush for my veins” in Section 28?
(a) “Flames and ether.”
(b) “Chariots of fire.”
(c) “Winds of worry.”
(d) “Curtains of gold.”

5. The narrator says in Section 25, “My voice goes after what my” what “cannot reach”?
(a) “Fingertips.”
(b) “Nose.”
(c) “Lips.”
(d) “Eyes.”

6. The poet says in Section 46, “No friend of mine takes his ease” where?
(a) “In my chair.”
(b) “On my land.”
(c) “In my bed.”
(d) “On my porch.”

7. The narrator says in Section 46, “This day before dawn I ascended a hill and look’d at” what?
(a) “The crowded heaven.”
(b) “The waking animals.”
(c) “The empty lands.”
(d) “The rushing rivers.”

8. What word does Whitman use in Section 43 to refer to a Mesoamerican pyramid surmounted by a temple?
(a) Olypmus.
(b) Teokallis.
(c) Elocutionist.
(d) Pismire.

9. Who is described as the grandson of Kronos in Section 41?
(a) Hercules.
(b) Midas.
(c) Odin.
(d) Zeus.

10. What is described as “the cataract falling like a veil over my countenance” in Section 33?
(a) The Atlantic Ocean.
(b) Niagara.
(c) The Nile.
(d) Bridal Veil Falls.

11. The poet describes coming again upon the earth after how many years in Section 43?
(a) 500.
(b) 2,500.
(c) 15,000.
(d) 5,000.

12. What “is drawn on the slip-noose” in Section 33?
(a) The sun.
(b) The phoenix.
(c) The ocean.
(d) The life-car.

13. The poet describes “considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand just as curious as any” what, in Section 41?
(a) “Bible.”
(b) “Woman.”
(c) “Child.”
(d) “Revelation.”

14. The poet says in Section 44, “I am an acme of things accomplish’d, and I am an enclose of” what?
(a) “Things forgotten.”
(b) “The impossible.”
(c) “Things remembered.”
(d) “Things to be.”

15. “Behavior” is described as “lawless” as what in Section 39?
(a) “Falling leaves.”
(b) “Rapid rivers.”
(c) “Raindrops.”
(d) “Snow-flakes.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator contends that he is the teacher of what, in the opening of Section 47?

2. Who is described with the line, “Wherever he goes men and women accept and desire him” in Section 39?

3. The poet describes outbidding what “old cautious” characters in Section 41?

4. The poet says in Section 40, “To cotton-field drudge or” whom does he lean?

5. According to the poet in Section 31, what “would adorn the parlors of heaven”?

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