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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. Where do the subways stall and wait in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) At Coney Island.
(b) Under the river.
(c) Over the river.
(d) Under the bridge.

2. Along with sleight-of-foot tricks, what does the poet perform in Poem 15?
(a) Leaps.
(b) Pirouettes.
(c) Tumbles.
(d) Entrechats.

3. In Poem 13, the poet writes of Dante discovering what?
(a) A tragedy.
(b) A commedia.
(c) A mountain.
(d) A nymph.

4. The poet writes he's selling everything and giving the rest to what in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Homeless men he passes.
(b) The shoremen on leave.
(c) The ragtag crew of nonpatriots.
(d) Good Will Industries.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does golf go on in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

2. What did the poet get caught stealing in the Five and Dime store in "Autobiography"?

3. With what expression does the woman look at the man in Poem 8?

4. What park is referred to in Poem 8?

5. What are the "patriotic maidens" wearing in Poem 2?

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