1. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking’ is a poem by Walt Whitman. It is one of Whitman's complex and successfully integrated poems. Whitman used several new techniques in the poem. One is the use of images like bird, boy,____?
A:) Sea
B:) river
C:) world
D:) tree
springline- Correct option: A:) Sea
2. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking: The influence of music is also seen in opera form. Some critics have taken the poem to be an elegy mourning the death of someone dear to him. The basic theme of the poem is the relationship between suffering and ____?
A:) Poetry
B:) Art
C:) Philosophy
D:) Painting
springline- Correct option: B:) Art
3. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking: It shows how a boy matures into a poet through his experience of love and death. Art is a sublimation of frustrations and Which is a release from the stress and strains caused by such frustrations?
A:) mistakes
B:) sin
C:) Death
D:) errors
springline- Correct option: C:) Death
4. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ;The poem features a young boy walking on the beach who finds two mockingbirds nesting and watches them. The female bird fails to appear one day, and the male bird cries out for_____?
A:) servant
B:) the boy
C:) female bird
D:) male bird
springline- Correct option: C:) female bird
5. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking; The bird's cries create an awakening in the boy who translates what the male is saying in the rest of the poem. As this happens, Who recognizes the impact of nature on the human soul and his own burgeoning consciousness ?
A:) narrator
B:) male bird
C:) female bird
D:) the boy
springline- Correct option: D:) the boy
6. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking; Originally titled ‘A Child's Reminiscence’, the poem was first published in the Saturday Press on December 24, 1859. Which included this introduction: ‘Our readers may, if they choose, consider as our Christmas or New Year's present to them, the curious warble by Walt Whitman’ ?
A:) Newspaper
B:) Magazine
C:) Poem
D:) Club
springline- Correct option: A:) Newspaper
7. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking; The poem was later included in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass under the title ‘A Word Out of the Sea’ (and occasionally erroneously referred to, even by Whitman himself, as ‘A Voice Out of the _____?
A:) bird
B:) nest
C:) Sea
D:) world
springline- Correct option: C:) Sea
8. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking’ is found in the title section, Sea-Drift. Several of Whitman's individuals poems, including ‘Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking’, focus on the seashore; his first was ________?
A:) Poem of Myself
B:) A Draw
C:) Drum Taps
D:) A Sketch
springline- Correct option: D:) A Sketch
9. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking: Upon its first publication, a reviewer for the Cincinnati newspaper Daily Commercial called the poem ‘unmixed and hopeless drivel’ and a disgrace to its publisher. Shortly after, on January 7, 1860, the Saturday Press published a response to that review titled ‘All About a Mocking-Bird’, celebrating Whitman's poem. This article may have been written by ______?
A:) Whitman
B:) Ezra Pound
C:) George
D:) Henry David Thoreau
springline- Correct option: A:) Whitman
10. Walter Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of ________?
A:) Blank Verse
B:) Morality
C:) free verse
D:) Spiritualism
springline- Correct option: C:) free verse
11. Whitman Born in Huntington on Long Island, as a child and through much of his career he resided in Brooklyn. At age 11, he left formal schooling to go to work. Later, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, and a government clerk. Whitman's major poetry collection, Leaves of Grass, was first published in ______?
A:) 1855
B:) 1856
C:) 1857
D:) 1858
springline- Correct option: A:) 1855
12. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking: The work was an attempt at reaching out to the common person with an American epic. He continued expanding and revising it until his death in 1892. During, When he went to Washington, D.C. and worked in hospitals caring for the wounded ?
A:) Mexican Wars
B:) American Civil War
C:) American Revolution
D:) Spanish American Wars
springline- Correct option: B:) American Civil War
13. Whitman's influence on poetry remains strong. Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe argued: ‘You cannot really understand America without Walt Whitman, without Leaves of Grass ... He has expressed that civilization, 'up to date,' as he would say, and no student of the philosophy of history can do without him. Who called, Whitman ‘America's poet ... He is America’?
A:) Emerson
B:) George
C:) Harold Bloom
D:) Ezra Pound
springline- Correct option: D:) Ezra Pound
14. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking; This poem was written in 1859 and incorporated into the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. It describes a young boy’s awakening as a poet, mentored by nature and his own maturing consciousness. The poem is loose in its form, except for the sections that purport to be a transcript of the bird’s call, which are musical in their repetition of words and _______?
A:) phrases
B:) Songs
C:) music
D:) signals
springline- Correct option: A:) Phrases
15. Whitman envisioned democracy not just as a political system but as a way of experiencing the world. In the early nineteenth century, people still harbored many doubts about whether the United States could survive as a country and about whether democracy could thrive as a political system. To allay those fears and to praise democracy, Whitman tried to be democratic in both life and____?
A:) nature
B:) poetry
C:) politics
D:) songs
springline- Correct option: B:) Poetry
16. In his poetry, Whitman widened the possibilities of Poeticdiction by including slang, colloquialisms, and regional dialects, rather than employing the stiff, erudite language so often found in nineteenth-century verse. Like Who, Whitman believed that everyday life and everyday people were fit subjects for poetry ?
A:) John Milton
B:) John Dryden
C:) William Wordsworth
D:) Spenser
springline- Correct option: C:) William Wordsworth
17. At age eleven Whitman concluded formal schooling. He then sought employment for further income for his family; he was an office boy for two lawyers and later was an apprentice and printer's devil for the weekly Long Island newspaper the Patriot, edited by______?
A:) Mark Twain
B:) Samuel E. Clements
C:) Ernest Hemingway
D:) Ralph Ellison
springline- Correct option: B:) Samuel E. Clements
18. The following summer Whitman worked for another printer, Erastus Worthington, in Brooklyn. His family moved back to West Hills in the spring, but Whitman remained and took a job at the shop of Alden Spooner, editor of the leading Whig weekly newspaper the Long-Island Star. While at the Star, Whitman became a regular patron of the local library, joined a town debating society, began attending theater performances, and anonymously published some of his earliest poetry in the ________?
A:) New-York Diary
B:) New-York Glory
C:) New-York Mirror
D:) Spring of New York
springline- Correct option: C:) New-York Mirror
19. Whitman: After his teaching attempts, Whitman went back to Huntington, New York, to found his own newspaper, the Long-Islander. Whitman served as publisher, editor, pressman, and distributor and even provided home delivery. After ten months, he sold the publication to E. O. Crowell, whose first issue appeared on July 12, _________?
A:) 1839
B:) 1840
C:) 1835
D:) 1845
springline- Correct option: A:) 1839
20. The summer of 1839, he found a job as a typesetter in Jamaica, Queens, with the Long Island Democrat, edited by James J. Brenton. He left shortly thereafter, and made another attempt at teaching from the winter of 1840 to the spring of 1841. One story, possibly apocryphal, tells of Whitman's being chased away from a teaching job in Southold, New York, in 1840. After a local preacher called him a ______?
A:) Parson
B:) Sodomite
C:) bugger
D:) Pervert
springline- Correct option: B:) Sodomite
21. Whitman moved to New York City in May, initially working a low-level job at the New World, working under Park Benjamin Sr. and Rufus Wilmot Griswold. He continued working for short periods of time for various newspapers; in 1842 he was editor of the Aurora and from 1846 to 1848 he was editor of the ______?
A:) The Great Gatsby
B:) Alas
C:) Brooklyn Eagle
D:) As I Lay Dying
springline- Correct option: C:) Brooklyn Eagle
22. Whitman was a delegate to the 1848 founding convention of the Free Soil Party, which was concerned about the threat slavery would pose to free white labor and northern businessmen moving into the newly colonised western territories. Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison derided the party which as ‘white manism ?
A:) philosophy
B:) Political
C:) Poetry
D:) Verse
springline- Correct option: A:) philosophy
23. As early as 1850, he began writing what would become Leaves of Grass, a collection of poetry which he would continue editing and revising until his death. Whitman intended to write a distinctly American epic and used free verse with a cadence based on the____?
A:) Philosophy
B:) Bible
C:) Nature
D:) Politics
springline- Correct option: B:) Bible
24. Whitman claimed that after years of competing for ‘the usual rewards’, he determined to become a poet. He first experimented with a variety of popular literary genres which appealed to the cultural tastes of the period At the end of June 1855, Whitman surprised his brothers with the already-printed first edition of Leaves of Grass. Who didn't think it worth reading’?
A:) Emerson
B:) Thomas Jefferyson
C:) George
D:) Whitman
springline- Correct option: C:) George
25. The American Civil War was beginning, Whitman published his poem ‘Beat! Beat! Drums!‘ as a patriotic rally call for the North. Whitman's brother George had joined the Union army and began sending Whitman several vividly detailed letters of the battle front. When a listing of fallen and wounded soldiers in the New-York Tribune included ‘First Lieutenant G. W. Whitmore’, which Whitman worried was a reference to his brother George ?
A:) 1851
B:) 1861
C:) 1865
D:) 1862
springline- Correct option: D:) 1862
26. Walter Whitman: In 1874, he was invited to write a poem about the Spiritualism movement, to which he responded, ‘It seems to me nearly altogether a poor, cheap, crude humbug.’ Whitman was a religious skeptic: though he accepted all churches, he believed in none. God, to Whitman, was both immanent and transcendent and the human soul was immortal and in a state of progressive development. Whitman was deeply influenced by _____?
A:) spiritualism
B:) pandeist
C:) deism
D:) pantheist
springline- Correct option: C:) deism
27. Whitman was an adherent of the Shakespeare authorship question, refusing to believe in the Which attribution of the works to William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon and Whitman comments in his November Boughs (1888) regarding Shakespeare's _____?
A:) Tragic plays
B:) comedy plays
C:) historical plays
D:) romantic plays
springline- Correct option: C:) historical plays
28. Whitman considered himself a messiah-like figure in poetry. Others agreed: one of his admirers, William Sloane Kennedy, speculated that ‘people will be celebrating the birth of Walt Whitman as they are now the birth of Christ. Who called him ‘the great poet of America so far’ ?
A:) Toni Morrison
B:) Ralph Waldo Emerson
C:) Andrew Carnegie
D:) Henry James
springline- Correct option: C:) Andrew Carnegie
29. Some, like Oscar Wilde and Edward Carpenter, viewed Whitman both as a prophet of a utopian future and of same-sex desire – the passion of comrades. This aligned with their own desires for a future of brotherly socialism. Whitman also influenced Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, and was a model for the character of _____?
A:) Count Dracula
B:) Mina Harker
C:) Jonathan Harker
D:) Abraham Van Helsing
springline- Correct option: A:) Count Dracula
30. To poet Langston Hughes, who wrote, ‘I, too, sing America’, Whitman was a literary hero. Whitman's vagabond lifestyle was adopted by the Beat movement and its leaders such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac in the 1950s and 1960s as well as anti-war poets like Adrienne Rich, Alicia Ostriker, and ______?
A:) John Steinbeck
B:) William Faulkner
C:) Mark Twain
D:) Gary Snyder
springline- Correct option: D:) Gary Snyder