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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 Poem 10, what does the poet write he has not lain with all his life?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Love.
(c) Truth.
(d) Gentleness.

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

3. In Poem 11, the poet writes that "the wounded wilderness of _____ is not the same as the wild west."
(a) Morris Mountain.
(b) Sanders Graves.
(c) Death Valley.
(d) Morris Graves.

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

5. In Poem 12, what did the painting cry at him?
(a) A beautiful ballad of sorrow.
(b) A terrible bedtime song.
(c) A screech of epiphany.
(d) A song of remorse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Widder Fogliani have whiskers?

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

3. What is the name of the billiard parlor in "Autobiography"?

4. What does the woman in Poem 9 hate?

5. What painter kept painting, despite his mother's pleas in Poem 14?

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