Test 33 - Out of Cradle, Brahma, Poetics

In Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, the seashore setting Whitman names as “Paumanok” refers to which modern place?

• Cape Cod
• Long Island
• Staten Island
• Coney Island

In Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, the two birds that anchor the narrative are most precisely identified as:

• Nightingales
• Thrushes
• Mocking-birds
• Larks

In Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, the disappearance that catalyzes the he-bird’s lament is that of the:

• He-bird’s rival
• She-bird mate
• Brood of nestlings
• Boy’s dog

In Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, the sea is personified as whispering a single key word that the boy claims to have learned; the word is:

• Love
• Fate
• Death
• Time

In Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, the original periodical publication (before its Leaves of Grass placement) was under the title:

• “Sea-Drift”
• “A Child’s Reminiscence”
• “The Mocking-bird’s Song”
• “A Paumanok Memory”

In Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, the first publication year of the poem in the New York press is:

• 1855
• 1857
• 1859
• 1867

In Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, Whitman later groups the poem in which Leaves of Grass cluster of sea-pieces?

• “Calamus”
• “Drum-Taps”
• “Sea-Drift”
• “Children of Adam”

In Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, the boy’s “translation” of the he-bird’s song is typographically marked chiefly by:

• Small caps
• Italics
• Boldface
• Parentheses only

In Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, the title’s “cradle” is most often read as symbolically linked to which element within the poem?

• The rocking chair of the mother
• The rocking motion of the sea
• The swinging nest
• The moon’s orbit

In Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, the poet’s self-address “Demon or bird!” is an instance of which figure?

• Apostrophe
• Litotes
• Metonymy
• Chiasmus