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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 poets writes in "Junkman's Obbligato," "Let us not wait for ______ / to carry us triumphant / into the interior waving / at the natives."
(a) Cadillacs.
(b) Chariots.
(c) Unicorns.
(d) Firemouth.

2. What is the name of the billiard parlor in "Autobiography"?
(a) Jack.
(b) Dante.
(c) Homer.
(d) Mike.

3. In Poem 3, the poet writes of fur leaves and cobalt what?
(a) Skies.
(b) Seas.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Flowers.

4. Who is the author waiting to come to the "final darkest tower" in "I Am Waiting"?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Childe Roland.
(c) Alice in Wonderland.
(d) God.

5. What kind of clowns "always making up imaginary scenes with all our masks for faces" does the poet refer to in Poem 16?
(a) Smoke-stenched.
(b) Jubilant juggling.
(c) Emmett Kelly.
(d) Flat faced.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "obbligato" mean?

2. What does the author consider the poems in Chapter 2 to be?

3. What does the poet say we'll dry our drawers on in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

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

5. In Poem 11, the poet writes that "the wounded wilderness of _____ is not the same as the wild west."

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