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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 "I Am Waiting," Ferlinghetti writes that he is waiting for what to be stored?
(a) The Holy Bible.
(b) The Grapes of Wrath.
(c) The Last Judgment.
(d) The Sun Also Rises.

2. What does the author consider the poems in Chapter 2 to be?
(a) Music poetry.
(b) Dance poetry.
(c) Image poetry.
(d) Oral messages.

3. In Poem 1, the author writes that in the paintings of Goya we see the people of the world when "they first attained the title of" what?
(a) Solemn silence.
(b) Suffering humanity.
(c) Brilliant adversity.
(d) Joyous humanity.

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

5. In "Autobiography," the author writes, "I landed in Normandy/in a rowboat that _______."
(a) Fell to shreds.
(b) Turned over.
(c) Floated ashore.
(d) Washed away in the waves.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Junkman's Obbligato," what has not yet toppled from his horse?

2. In Poem 16, the poet writes, "Yet away around on the far side like the stage door of a circus tent is a wide wide vent in the _______."

3. What is the poet waiting to just stop rolling along past the country club in "I Am Waiting"?

4. Who does the dog not hate but has no use for in "Dog"?

5. The author writes in "Autobiography," "I once started out / to walk around the world / but ended up in ______."

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