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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. Along with sleight-of-foot tricks, what does the poet perform in Poem 15?
(a) Leaps.
(b) Pirouettes.
(c) Tumbles.
(d) Entrechats.

2. In Poem 15, what stands and waits to perform her own death-defying leap?
(a) Truth.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Love.
(d) Poetry.

3. What did the poet get caught stealing in the Five and Dime store in "Autobiography"?
(a) Toys.
(b) Pencils.
(c) Soda.
(d) Candy.

4. In Poem 20, what did the leaves cry?
(a) Leave!
(b) Too soon!
(c) Fall beneath me!
(d) Sleep son!

5. Whom does the poet say he is waiting for them to prove is really an American in "I Am Waiting"?
(a) God.
(b) The Pope.
(c) Ginsberg.
(d) Himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Widder Fogliani otherwise known as?

2. What is the heart compared to in Poem 25?

3. What is the poet waiting to just stop rolling along past the country club in "I Am Waiting"?

4. In Poem 21, from the other side of what do the green birds sing?

5. In the poem, "Dog," what does the dog see in Chinatown windows?

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