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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. "By the time they print your picture / in ________ / you will have become a negative anyway" the poet writes in "Junkman's Obbligato."
(a) New York Magazine.
(b) Times Magazine.
(c) The paper.
(d) Life Magazine.

2. For whom is the poet waiting to act in "I Am Waiting"?
(a) The woman.
(b) The man.
(c) Ike.
(d) Jesus.

3. In "Autobiography," what are the French addicts of?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Heroin.
(c) Pinball.
(d) Absinthe.

4. The man in Poem 8 is carrying an old beat-up what?
(a) Umbrella.
(b) Flower.
(c) Flute.
(d) Shawl.

5. Where does the poet write of staggering blind after alleycats in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) In Seattle by the shore.
(b) In the San Francisco fire line.
(c) In the sunsets of Chicago.
(d) Under the Brooklyn Bridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 15, what stands and waits to perform her own death-defying leap?

2. The poet writes in Poem 13 that he would paint a different kind of what?

3. What does "obbligato" mean?

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

5. What does the poet speak of leaving behind on lampposts in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

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