TEST - 61

In Walt Whitman’s Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, the shore is named with Whitman’s Long Island word—what does the boy hear by “Paumanok” as the poem’s primal cue?

• Surf and bells
• Sea and bird
• Wind and reeds
• Oars and gulls

In Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, the he-bird’s repeated performance is labeled most precisely as which musical term within the poem?

• Coda
• Aria
• Madrigal
• Chorale

When Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking dramatizes the boy’s initiation, the sea whispers a “low and delicious” key word—what single word completes that epiphany?

• Love
• Time
• Death
• Fate

In Whitman’s Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, the poem originally bore another title tied to childhood recollection; which is correct?

• A Boy’s Paumanok
• A Child’s Reminiscence
• A Sea Memory
• A Mockingbird Tale

The seasonal cue inside Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking dates the memory as “Ninth-month”; in Whitman’s Quaker idiom, that points to which month?

• July
• August
• September
• October

In the Sea-Drift cluster where Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking belongs, Whitman blends three presences—boy, bird, and sea; which one explicitly “translates” the others’ voices?

• Bird
• Sea
• Boy
• Night

Anne Bradstreet’s “The Prologue” appeared in the London volume The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America; which year matches that printing?

• 1640
• 1650
• 1660
• 1670

In “The Prologue,” Bradstreet’s line “my hand a needle better fits” ironizes which doctrine restricting women’s arts?

• Sapere aude
• Separate spheres
• Blank slate
• Great chain

When “The Prologue” invokes the French poet Du Bartas, Bradstreet’s gesture most precisely claims what for women writers?

• Patronage
• Precedent
• Pedagogy
• Privacy

In “The Prologue,” Bradstreet’s rhetorical strategy to deflect envy is chiefly what classical move?

• Litotes
• Apostrophe
• Chiasmus
• Anaphora