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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 "The Long Street," it is the street of what?
(a) The women.
(b) The world.
(c) The city.
(d) The universe.

2. What does the woman in Poem 9 hate?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Jewelry.
(c) Love.
(d) Poetry.

3. In the fields of "our childhood" of Poem 19, what mixes with rainbows in memory?
(a) Hope.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Rain.
(d) Ricks.

4. Who is the author waiting to come to the "final darkest tower" in "I Am Waiting"?
(a) Childe Roland.
(b) God.
(c) Alice in Wonderland.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

5. What kind of two-step does the poet write about in Poem 9?
(a) Romanian.
(b) Athenian.
(c) Barbarian.
(d) Aztec.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is "sister in the street" wearing her brassiere in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

2. In "Autobiography," who has the poet heard "strained through a sheet"?

3. What kind of clowns "always making up imaginary scenes with all our masks for faces" does the poet refer to in Poem 16?

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

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

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