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

2. Where will "we" be puking in, "wailing for a winter coat," in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Golden Gate Park.
(b) Pawn shops.
(c) Lonely diners.
(d) Jackson Square.

3. What kind of clowns "always making up imaginary scenes with all our masks for faces" does the poet refer to in Poem 16?
(a) Jubilant juggling.
(b) Flat faced.
(c) Emmett Kelly.
(d) Smoke-stenched.

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

5. In Poem 21, from the other side of what do the green birds sing?
(a) Memory.
(b) Silence.
(c) Truth.
(d) Beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 4, the poet writes of dead sunflowers and live what?

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

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

4. Who is the author waiting to come to the "final darkest tower" in "I Am Waiting"?

5. What does the author consider the poems in Chapter 2 to be?

(see the answer key)

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