Walt Whitman and "I Hear America Singing"

The Americans the speaker refers to in the poem "I Hear America Singing" are-

• ordinary working people
• wounded soldiers
• great figures in the US history
• doctors and nurses

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Which of the following statements is true about the songs America is singing?

• The songs are out of tune
• Each person has a different song
• People are singing songs no one can hear
• People are singing out of sorrow

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You can infer that Whitman chose to write about these Americans because-

• these were the people he had only read about 
• he wanted them to have better working conditions
• he wanted to make up for his life of privilege
• he thought they were the true American heros

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Which repeated word serves to unify this poem?

• carols
• worker
• strong
• singing

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When used to refer to a poetic technique, the word catalog refers to - 

• two related lines of poetry that rhyme
• a list of related people, places or events
• a comparison between two unlike things
• a reference to another work of literature

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In "I Hear America Singing" Whitman uses a catalog to -

• organize details
• clarify ideas
• show relationships
• create rhyme

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Whitman favored the catalog as a technique because it expressed his-

• English-Dutch heritage
• knowledge of poetic devices
• tendency to repeat himself
• unbounded love for all things

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Which famous Transcendentalist called Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed"?

• Henry David Thoreau

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Edgar Allan Poe

• John Greenleaf Whittier

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Which of the following was NOT a job Whitman held?

• Mechanic

• Newspaper Editor

• Teacher

• Carpenter

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In which year was Walt Whitman born?

• 1819

• 1918

• 1981

• 1891

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