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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 painter kept painting, despite his mother's pleas in Poem 14?
(a) Picasso.
(b) Van Gogh.
(c) Chagall.
(d) Monet.

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

3. In Poem 3, the poet writes of fur leaves and cobalt what?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Skies.
(d) Seas.

4. Where do the "dogs do it" in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) In the Backyard.
(b) Upon the Mountain.
(c) Over the Hill.
(d) In the Black Forest.

5. What will our eyes be watery with the empty bottles of in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Mescal.
(b) Rum.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Muscatel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of two-step does the poet write about in Poem 9?

2. In Chapter 2, the author writes that these poems were conceived specifically to be accompanied by what?

3. In Poem 20, what did the leaves cry?

4. What does the poet say we'll dry our drawers on in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

5. Whose castle stands above the world like a last bastille in Poem 16?

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