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

2. The poet uses literary allusion in the line, "I'm tired of waiting for Godot." To which author is he referring?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Arthur Miller.
(d) Albert Camus.

3. In Poem 13, the poet writes of Dante discovering what?
(a) A nymph.
(b) A mountain.
(c) A commedia.
(d) A tragedy.

4. In "Autobiography," what are the French addicts of?
(a) Heroin.
(b) Absinthe.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Pinball.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What went mad in Poem 7?

3. In Poem 19, the poet writes, "like every morning with its sharp shadows shadowing a ______."

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

5. In Poem 1, the author writes of false windmills and _____ roosters.

(see the answer key)

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