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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 can never fade into a money-losing nothingness in Poem 10?
(a) Death.
(b) Truth.
(c) Love.
(d) Beauty.

2. In Poem 12, where did he hound the leaded ground?
(a) Into the future.
(b) Into oblivion.
(c) Into the distance.
(d) Into the night.

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

4. In "Junkman's Obbligato," the poet writes, "Empty out your pockets and _____."
(a) Fall asleep.
(b) Awaken.
(c) Arouse.
(d) Disappear.

5. In poem 29, the poet writes of what character from The Sun Also Rises?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Jackson Stowe.
(c) Robert Cohn.
(d) Brett Parker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the "falcons of the inner eye" do in Poem 11?

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

3. In Poem 27, what tolled twice, once for the birth of love and once for the death?

4. In "Autobiography," the author writes, "I landed in Normandy/in a rowboat that _______."

5. The poet writes in "I Am Waiting," that he is waiting for the deepest South to just stop what?

(see the answer key)

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