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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. What is in the bathtubs in Poem 2?
(a) Elephants.
(b) Monsters.
(c) Eagles.
(d) Tigers.

2. In Poem 1, the author writes of false windmills and _____ roosters.
(a) Crying.
(b) Ancient.
(c) Demented.
(d) Screaming.

3. In Poem 3, the poet writes of fur leaves and cobalt what?
(a) Seas.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Skies.

4. In Poem 12, what did the painting cry at him?
(a) A terrible bedtime song.
(b) A song of remorse.
(c) A beautiful ballad of sorrow.
(d) A screech of epiphany.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The poet writes in "Junkman's Obbligato," "Let's go / smelling of _____."

3. What does the woman in Poem 9 hate?

4. What is the Widder Fogliani otherwise known as?

5. Where does the poet ask to go in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

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