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

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

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

4. In Poem 27, what tolled twice, once for the birth of love and once for the death?
(a) A cloche.
(b) The clock.
(c) A telephone.
(d) A bell.

5. In "The Long Street," the poet writes ""Oaklands of the soul /____ of the Imagination."
(a) Dublins.
(b) New Yorks.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Chicagos.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Junkman's Obbligato," what has not yet toppled from his horse?

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

3. In "I Am Waiting," the poet says he is waiting for the Age of what to drop dead?

4. What are the "patriotic maidens" wearing in Poem 2?

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

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