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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 are the "gay cows" chanting in Poem 2?
(a) Winter songs.
(b) Argentinean anthems.
(c) Lullabies.
(d) Athenian anthems.

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) New York Magazine.
(c) Times Magazine.
(d) The paper.

3. What went mad in Poem 7?
(a) The leaves.
(b) The birds.
(c) The children.
(d) The fairies.

4. What kind of clowns "always making up imaginary scenes with all our masks for faces" does the poet refer to in Poem 16?
(a) Emmett Kelly.
(b) Jubilant juggling.
(c) Flat faced.
(d) Smoke-stenched.

5. In what way does the poet repeatedly change a line from the song "America" in ""Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) The stars shining black.
(b) Oh say can you sleep.
(c) My country lies of thee.
(d) My country tears of thee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Along with sleight-of-foot tricks, what does the poet perform in Poem 15?

2. For whom is the poet waiting to act in "I Am Waiting"?

3. With whom did the author create an LP of the poems in Chapter 2?

4. The poet writes in "I Am Waiting" that he is waiting for a religious revival to sweep through the state of what?

5. In what does the poet write he first fell in love in Poem 20?

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