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Walt Whitman
Contributed by: Millington
  • 1. When was Walt Whitman born?
A) 1830
B) 1855
C) 1799
D) 1819
  • 2. What was Walt Whitman's occupation?
A) Politician
B) Poet
C) Doctor
D) Teacher
  • 3. Which war heavily influenced Whitman's poetry?
A) World War I
B) War of 1812
C) Vietnam War
D) American Civil War
  • 4. What is the title of Walt Whitman's most famous poetry collection?
A) The Waste Land
B) Paradise Lost
C) White Noise
D) Leaves of Grass
  • 5. What was the first edition of 'Leaves of Grass' like when originally published in 1855?
A) 50 poems
B) 1 poem
C) 12 poems
D) 100 poems
  • 6. What literary movement is Walt Whitman often associated with?
A) Transcendentalism
B) Surrealism
C) Dadaism
D) Romanticism
  • 7. In which of the following cities did Walt Whitman live and work for a significant part of his life?
A) San Francisco
B) Chicago
C) New Orleans
D) Brooklyn
  • 8. What is the famous opening line of 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman?
A) I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
B) It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
C) Roses are red, violets are blue,
D) To be or not to be,
  • 9. Which of the following was not an aspect of Whitman's personal life?
A) Traveling
B) Homosexuality
C) Journalism
D) Married with children
  • 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) You should give up writing.
D) I greet you at the beginning of a great career.
  • 11. What year was Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' first published?
A) 1855
B) 1776
C) 1900
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) Camden, New Jersey
B) Los Angeles, California
C) London, England
D) Savannah, Georgia
  • 14. What was Whitman's stance on the idea of immortality?
A) He didn't consider the concept of immortality in his work.
B) He thought it was impossible to achieve immortality.
C) He believed only in the immortality of historical figures.
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) Simile
B) Apostrophe
C) Alliteration
D) Metaphor
  • 16. Which president did Whitman mourn greatly after his assassination in 1865?
A) Andrew Jackson
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) Abraham Lincoln
D) John F. Kennedy
  • 17. Which of the following genres did Whitman not explore in his writing?
A) Epic Poetry
B) Science Fiction
C) Elegy
D) Letter Writing
  • 18. Where was Walt Whitman born?
A) Boston, Massachusetts
B) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
C) Chicago, Illinois
D) West Hills, New York
  • 19. Who designed the cover for the first edition of Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass'?
A) Vincent van Gogh
B) Whitman himself
C) Leonardo da Vinci
D) Pablo Picasso
  • 20. Which famous author praised Whitman's poetry and called him 'an immense man'?
A) Mark Twain
B) Ralph Waldo Emerson
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Emily Dickinson
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