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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 29, the poet writes of what character from The Sun Also Rises?
(a) Robert Cohn.
(b) Jackson Stowe.
(c) Brett Parker.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

2. In "Junkman's Obbligato," what has not yet toppled from his horse?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Miami.
(c) Hamilton.
(d) Washington.

3. For whom is the poet waiting to grow up in "I Am Waiting"?
(a) Tom Sawyer.
(b) Peter Pan.
(c) Oliver Swift.
(d) Tom Swift.

4. What is the poet waiting to just stop rolling along past the country club in "I Am Waiting"?
(a) The Silent Ship.
(b) The Jesus caravan.
(c) Old Man River.
(d) The Ship of Fools.

5. In Poem 4, the poet writes of dead sunflowers and live what?
(a) Monsters.
(b) Butterflies.
(c) Telephones.
(d) Subways.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the poet write of staggering blind after alleycats in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

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

4. Besides the Gettysburg address, what other address has the author heard, according to "Autobiography"?

5. In Poem 5, the guy who shows up late is a kind of what?

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