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

2. Where does the poet suggest sleeping in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Phone booths.
(b) Caves.
(c) Churches.
(d) Deserts.

3. The poet writes of staggering into what kind of sunsets in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) West coast.
(b) Snowy.
(c) East River.
(d) Rainy.

4. What painter kept painting, despite his mother's pleas in Poem 14?
(a) Chagall.
(b) Monet.
(c) Picasso.
(d) Van Gogh.

5. In "I Am Waiting," Ferlinghetti writes that he is waiting for what to be stored?
(a) The Sun Also Rises.
(b) The Last Judgment.
(c) The Holy Bible.
(d) The Grapes of Wrath.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Junkman's Obbligato," what has not yet toppled from his horse?

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

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

4. The poet writes in "I Am Waiting," that he is waiting for the deepest South to just stop what?

5. In Poem 22, what is Johnny's last name?

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