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1.Who wrote a letter to Whitman after reading Leaves of Grass?
A.Horace Greeley
B.Lucretia Mott
C.Ralph Waldo Emerson
D.Thomas Carlyle


2.To what type of person did Whitman compare Emerson?
A.an emperor
B.a person as strong as a buffalo
C.a person of equal intellect to Thomas Carlyle
D.an American Buddha


3.What lie did Whitman tell about the first edition of Leaves of Grass?
A.that the edition had made him a very wealthy man
B.that the books sold very well
C.that only Alfred Tennyson had written a finer collection of poems
D.that it was the greatest collection of American poetry yet printed


4.Who wrote three anonymous reviews of Leaves of Grass?
A.Charles Eliot Norton
B.Walt Whitman
C.Richard M. Bucke
D.Edward Everett Hale

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