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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. The poet writes he's selling everything and giving the rest to what in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) The ragtag crew of nonpatriots.
(b) Good Will Industries.
(c) The shoremen on leave.
(d) Homeless men he passes.

2. In "I Am Waiting," the poet writes he is waiting for someone to really discover what?
(a) Truth.
(b) Beauty.
(c) America.
(d) Poetry.

3. The poet writes in "I Am Waiting" that he is waiting for a religious revival to sweep through the state of what?
(a) California.
(b) Alaska.
(c) Hawaii.
(d) Arizona.

4. Where does "Autobiography" take place?
(a) Lower East Broadway.
(b) Jackson Square Park.
(c) The Upper East Side.
(d) SoHo.

5. In "The Long Street," it is the street of what?
(a) The universe.
(b) The world.
(c) The city.
(d) The women.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom is the poet waiting to act in "I Am Waiting"?

2. In "Autobiography," who has the poet heard "strained through a sheet"?

3. The man in Poem 8 is carrying an old beat-up what?

4. What is the repeated refrain in Poem 27?

5. In Poem 17, what kind of pierrots castrate disaster?

(see the answer key)

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