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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) Seas.
(b) Skies.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Flowers.

2. In Poem 18, how does the poet feel of his own voice and the sound of birds?
(a) Jealous.
(b) Overjoyed.
(c) Frightened.
(d) Enraged.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Where do the "dogs do it" in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) In the Backyard.
(b) Over the Hill.
(c) In the Black Forest.
(d) Upon the Mountain.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 6, what wouldn't sing where the statue was being erected?

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

3. In Poem 27, what tolled twice, once for the birth of love and once for the death?

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

5. In Poem 17, what kind of pierrots castrate disaster?

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