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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 in "I Am Waiting" that he is waiting for a religious revival to sweep through the state of what?
(a) Hawaii.
(b) Alaska.
(c) California.
(d) Arizona.

2. In Poem 4, the poet writes of dead sunflowers and live what?
(a) Butterflies.
(b) Telephones.
(c) Monsters.
(d) Subways.

3. What is the repeated refrain in Poem 27?
(a) C'est amore.
(b) Dove sta amore.
(c) Il vueno amore.
(d) Dolce amore.

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

5. Who did the poet believe he was, catching crayfish in the Bronx river in "Autobiography"?
(a) Jackson Browne.
(b) Huckleberry Finn.
(c) William Rutledge.
(d) Tom Sawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of pilots has the poet seen in "Autobiography"?

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

3. The poet writes in "I Am Waiting" that he is waiting for God to look to see the Ode to the Confederate Dead as a real what?

4. In "Meet Miss Subways," what is the year?

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

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