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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 the fields of "our childhood" of Poem 19, what mixes with rainbows in memory?
(a) Ricks.
(b) Rain.
(c) Hope.
(d) Sorrow.

2. Who does the poet refer to in the lines, "Take up the full beard/of walking anarchy"?
(a) Lord Byron.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) James Joyce.

3. Whom does the poet say he is waiting for them to prove is really an American in "I Am Waiting"?
(a) Himself.
(b) The Pope.
(c) Ginsberg.
(d) God.

4. In Poem 6, whose statue were they putting up?
(a) St. Louis.
(b) St. Peter.
(c) St. Francis.
(d) St. Christopher.

5. Who does the dog not hate but has no use for in "Dog"?
(a) Drunks.
(b) Vagrants.
(c) Children.
(d) Policemen.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 15, what stands and waits to perform her own death-defying leap?

2. What is the woman carrying in Poem 8?

3. In poem 29, the poet writes of what character from The Sun Also Rises?

4. Along with sleight-of-foot tricks, what does the poet perform in Poem 15?

5. In Poem 20, what did the leaves cry?

(see the answer key)

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