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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. With what expression does the woman look at the man in Poem 8?
(a) Depression.
(b) Joy.
(c) Lust.
(d) Love.

2. "By the time they print your picture / in ________ / you will have become a negative anyway" the poet writes in "Junkman's Obbligato."
(a) Life Magazine.
(b) Times Magazine.
(c) New York Magazine.
(d) The paper.

3. In "Autobiography," where was the poet when Rome was built?
(a) Europe.
(b) America.
(c) India.
(d) Japan.

4. Where did the Widder Fogliani have whiskers?
(a) On her soul.
(b) On her heart.
(c) On her chest.
(d) On her chin.

5. What is the name of the billiard parlor in "Autobiography"?
(a) Mike.
(b) Dante.
(c) Jack.
(d) Homer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the heart compared to in Poem 25?

2. What can never fade into a money-losing nothingness in Poem 10?

3. Whom does the poet say he is waiting for them to prove is really an American in "I Am Waiting"?

4. The poet writes in "I Am Waiting" that he is waiting for God to look to see the Ode to the Confederate Dead as a real what?

5. Where does the poet suggest sleeping in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

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