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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. What does the poet do with all the old ladies in Poem 18?
(a) Kisses them sleeping.
(b) Rouses their confidence.
(c) Makes them young again.
(d) Wakens their dreams.

2. Where does golf go on in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Jackson Square.
(b) Central Park.
(c) Golden Gate.
(d) Burning Tree.

3. In what way does the poet repeatedly change a line from the song "America" in ""Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) My country lies of thee.
(b) My country tears of thee.
(c) The stars shining black.
(d) Oh say can you sleep.

4. In "Autobiography," who has the poet heard "strained through a sheet"?
(a) Debussy.
(b) Bach.
(c) Picasso.
(d) Chopin.

5. In Poem 18, how does the poet feel of his own voice and the sound of birds?
(a) Enraged.
(b) Frightened.
(c) Jealous.
(d) Overjoyed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what does the poet write he first fell in love in Poem 20?

3. Where do the subways stall and wait in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

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

5. What do the "falcons of the inner eye" do in Poem 11?

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