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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 kind of two-step does the poet write about in Poem 9?
(a) Athenian.
(b) Barbarian.
(c) Aztec.
(d) Romanian.

2. The author writes in "Autobiography," "I once started out / to walk around the world / but ended up in ______."
(a) Venezuela.
(b) Mexico.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Brooklyn.

3. Where does the poet write of staggering blind after alleycats in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) In Seattle by the shore.
(b) Under the Brooklyn Bridge.
(c) In the sunsets of Chicago.
(d) In the San Francisco fire line.

4. In Poem 5, in what year does the poet write the Dead Sea Scrolls are found?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1940.

5. How does the poet write of knowing whores in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Thirdhand.
(b) Firsthand.
(c) Vaguely.
(d) Secondhand.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Long Street," it is the street of what?

2. Whom does the poet say he is waiting for them to prove is really an American in "I Am Waiting"?

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

4. The poet writes in "I Am Waiting," "I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for" what?

5. In poem 29, the poet writes of what character from The Sun Also Rises?

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