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