Analysis Essay Quiz

1		Identify Whitman's use of open form, or "free verse."
2		Identify poems from the reading selections that celebrate "American idealism."

Evaluation Essay Quiz

3		What might some nineteenth-century readers find objectionable in Whitman's poetry?
4		Explain why no other established form of poetry would be appropriate for Whitman's vision of the American experiment in democracy.

Interpretation Essay Quiz

5		Trace the stages through which the voice of Whitman evolves in "Song of Myself."
6		Identify poems from the reading selections that celebrate "American idealism."