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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. With what expression does the woman look at the man in Poem 8?
(a) Lust.
(b) Love.
(c) Depression.
(d) Joy.

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

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

4. What magazine did the poet read as a boy, in "Autobiography"?
(a) Junior American.
(b) American League.
(c) Boy Scouts America.
(d) American Boy.

5. In "Meet Miss Subways," what is the year?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1950.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 12, where did he hound the leaded ground?

2. What does the woman in Poem 9 hate?

3. In Poem 7, the poet writes, "What could she say to the fantastic _____

4. In Poem 16, the poet writes, "Yet away around on the far side like the stage door of a circus tent is a wide wide vent in the _______."

5. 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?

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