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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. The poet writes in Poem 13 that he would paint a different kind of what?
(a) Paradiso.
(b) Bellissimo.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Tragedy.

2. In Poem 3, the poet writes, "its America with its ghost towns and empty ________."
(a) Forests.
(b) Mount Rushmore.
(c) Silent plains.
(d) Ellis islands.

3. Who did the poet believe he was, catching crayfish in the Bronx river in "Autobiography"?
(a) Huckleberry Finn.
(b) William Rutledge.
(c) Jackson Browne.
(d) Tom Sawyer.

4. Where does the poet ask to go in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Rome.
(b) Athens.
(c) Isle of Manisfree.
(d) Paris.

5. In Poem 15, what stands and waits to perform her own death-defying leap?
(a) Truth.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Love.
(d) Poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the poet refer to in the lines, "Take up the full beard/of walking anarchy"?

2. In "Autobiography," what are the French addicts of?

3. In "I Am Waiting," the poet says he is waiting for the Age of what to drop dead?

4. What bird is feeding "on its own breast" in Poem 11?

5. How does the poet write of knowing whores in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

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