1: Published in 1892, the final version of Leaves of Grass is known as
a. the early edition
b. the final edition
c. the abridged edition
d. the deathbed edition
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2: Whitman is a poet of which two elements in man?
a. Heart and mind
b. Body and soul
c. Hand and heart
d. Ego and id
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3: In "I Hear America Singing," Whitman glorifies what about the United States?
a. Its faith in the underdog
b. Its creativeness of labor
c. Its heroic men and women
d. Its entrepreneurial idealism
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4: The poetry in Leaves of Grass clearly demonstrate Whitman's faith in
a. bureaucracy
b. federalism
c. democracy
d. socialism
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5: Which of Whitman's poems was called "A Poem of Walt Whitman, an American."
a. "Song of Myself"
b. "To You"
c. "Poets to Come"
d. "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
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6: How did the American transcendental poets, such as Whitman, explain the findings of contemporary science?
a. They accepted it as a materialistic counterpart of spiritual achievement.
b. They considered scientific findings to be gifts from God.
c. They considered humans to be ignorant sparks of God and science to be a path to enlightenment.
d. They rejected science as the work of atheists.
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7: "To the Garden of the World" claims that
a. mankind longs for final judgment from God
b. the world is a gift from God to be cherished, not exploited
c. mankind endeavors to ascend to the Garden of Eden again, but only through love can this goal be reached
d. man is destroying the world by rebuking nature, and only love can repair the damage
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8: Which sense did Whitman seem particularly sensitive to, and thereby describe with the most acute awareness?
a. touch
b. smell
c. sight
d. sound
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9: In which poem are "Tan-faced children" and "Western youths" called upon to fell "primeval forests" and to cross rivers and mountains in order to reach the West?
a. "Spontaneous Me"
b. "Pioneers! O Pioneers!"
c. "In Paths Untrodden"
d. "I Hear America Singing"
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10: Leaves of Grass belongs to which form of poetry?
a. free verse
b. haiku
c. ballad
d. no particular form
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11: Whitman believed that poetry should be
a. spoken, not written
b. read, not spoken
c. created, not quoted
d. personal, not public
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12: Whitman's poem "A Passage to India" reflects upon his spirituality and his interest in
a. engineering achievements
b. Eastern culture
c. pioneering
d. colonialism
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