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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Oral Messages.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Poem 6, what wouldn't sing where the statue was being erected?
(a) Birds.
(b) Choirs.
(c) Angels.
(d) Girls.

2. In "The Long Street," the poet writes ""Oaklands of the soul /____ of the Imagination."
(a) Dublins.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) New Yorks.
(d) Chicagos.

3. What kind of two-step does the poet write about in Poem 9?
(a) Athenian.
(b) Romanian.
(c) Aztec.
(d) Barbarian.

4. How is "sister in the street" wearing her brassiere in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Backwards.
(b) Around her neck.
(c) Upside down.
(d) On the outside of her clothes.

5. What does the poet speak of leaving behind on lampposts in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Watches.
(b) Shirts.
(c) Neckties.
(d) Boots.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does the poet repeatedly change a line from the song "America" in ""Junkman's Obbligato"?

2. Who does the poet refer to in the lines, "Take up the full beard/of walking anarchy"?

3. The author writes in "Autobiography," "I once started out / to walk around the world / but ended up in ______."

4. What bird is feeding "on its own breast" in Poem 11?

5. "By the time they print your picture / in ________ / you will have become a negative anyway" the poet writes in "Junkman's Obbligato."

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