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

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

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

4. Besides the Gettysburg address, what other address has the author heard, according to "Autobiography"?
(a) Ginsberg.
(b) Home.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Kerouac.

5. In Poem 4, the poet writes of dead sunflowers and live what?
(a) Subways.
(b) Telephones.
(c) Butterflies.
(d) Monsters.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where will the carpenter not come down in Poem 5?

2. The poet writes of staggering into what kind of sunsets in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

3. In Poem 15, what stands and waits to perform her own death-defying leap?

4. In "The Long Street," the poet writes ""Oaklands of the soul /____ of the Imagination."

5. In Poem 10, the poet writes that beauty never dies, but lies among the aborigines of what?

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