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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. For whom is the poet waiting to grow up in "I Am Waiting"?
(a) Tom Swift.
(b) Tom Sawyer.
(c) Oliver Swift.
(d) Peter Pan.

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

3. What is the repeated refrain in Poem 27?
(a) Il vueno amore.
(b) Dove sta amore.
(c) C'est amore.
(d) Dolce amore.

4. What does the poet do with all the old ladies in Poem 18?
(a) Wakens their dreams.
(b) Rouses their confidence.
(c) Makes them young again.
(d) Kisses them sleeping.

5. In "I Am Waiting," the poet writes he is waiting for the rebirth of what?
(a) Music.
(b) Wonder.
(c) Truth.
(d) Inconsequence.

Short Answer Questions

1. The poet writes in "Junkman's Obbligato," "Let's go / smelling of _____."

2. What is the heart compared to in Poem 25?

3. In Poem 20, what did the leaves cry?

4. What do the "falcons of the inner eye" do in Poem 11?

5. In "I Am Waiting" the poet writes he is waiting to write the great ____ poem.

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