Use this online history of American literature quiz entitled the Walt Whitman Quiz to test your knowledge of Walt Whitman's life, literary works and the times in which he lived.
Use the Walt Whitman Quiz to test yourself on the poetry of Walt Whitman (1819-1892), which still has relevance and meaning today. This quiz will test you on Whitman's landmark work, Leaves of Grass, and see how it illustrates the poet's love of nature and diversity, the spiritual aspects of democracy, the uniqueness of the individual, and the extraordinariness of even the commonplace. This online quiz contains 20 questions from a pool of over 100 thereby allowing repeat use. We recommend that students study the relevant videos provided on this site on this subject before attempting this quiz.