Walt Whitman - Quiz
  • 1. When was Walt Whitman born?
A) 1830
B) 1799
C) 1819
D) 1855
  • 2. What was Walt Whitman's occupation?
A) Doctor
B) Teacher
C) Politician
D) Poet
  • 3. Which war heavily influenced Whitman's poetry?
A) War of 1812
B) American Civil War
C) World War I
D) Vietnam War
  • 4. What is the title of Walt Whitman's most famous poetry collection?
A) White Noise
B) Paradise Lost
C) Leaves of Grass
D) The Waste Land
  • 5. What was the first edition of 'Leaves of Grass' like when originally published in 1855?
A) 12 poems
B) 1 poem
C) 100 poems
D) 50 poems
  • 6. What literary movement is Walt Whitman often associated with?
A) Romanticism
B) Dadaism
C) Transcendentalism
D) Surrealism
  • 7. In which of the following cities did Walt Whitman live and work for a significant part of his life?
A) Chicago
B) Brooklyn
C) New Orleans
D) San Francisco
  • 8. What is the famous opening line of 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman?
A) I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
B) To be or not to be,
C) Roses are red, violets are blue,
D) It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
  • 9. Which of the following was not an aspect of Whitman's personal life?
A) Journalism
B) Married with children
C) Traveling
D) Homosexuality
  • 10. What did Emerson say after reading 'Leaves of Grass'?
A) I never want to speak with you again.
B) This is terrible poetry.
C) I greet you at the beginning of a great career.
D) You should give up writing.
  • 11. What year was Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' first published?
A) 1900
B) 1855
C) 1776
D) 1929
  • 12. What form of verse did Walt Whitman pioneer in American poetry?
A) Limerick
B) Sonnet
C) Haiku
D) Free verse
  • 13. Where did Walt Whitman spend the latter part of his life?
A) Los Angeles, California
B) Savannah, Georgia
C) London, England
D) Camden, New Jersey
  • 14. What was Whitman's stance on the idea of immortality?
A) He thought it was impossible to achieve immortality.
B) He believed only in the immortality of historical figures.
C) He didn't consider the concept of immortality in his work.
D) He believed in the immortality of the soul.
  • 15. What is the term used to describe Whitman's technique of addressing the reader directly?
A) Apostrophe
B) Alliteration
C) Simile
D) Metaphor
  • 16. Which president did Whitman mourn greatly after his assassination in 1865?
A) Thomas Jefferson
B) Andrew Jackson
C) John F. Kennedy
D) Abraham Lincoln
  • 17. Which of the following genres did Whitman not explore in his writing?
A) Letter Writing
B) Elegy
C) Science Fiction
D) Epic Poetry
  • 18. Where was Walt Whitman born?
A) West Hills, New York
B) Boston, Massachusetts
C) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
D) Chicago, Illinois
  • 19. Who designed the cover for the first edition of Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass'?
A) Pablo Picasso
B) Whitman himself
C) Leonardo da Vinci
D) Vincent van Gogh
  • 20. Which famous author praised Whitman's poetry and called him 'an immense man'?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Ralph Waldo Emerson
C) Mark Twain
D) Emily Dickinson
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