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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 is the woman carrying in Poem 8?
(a) Flowers.
(b) A flute.
(c) Grapes.
(d) A baby.

2. In "I Am Waiting," the poet writes he is waiting for the rebirth of what?
(a) Music.
(b) Truth.
(c) Wonder.
(d) Inconsequence.

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

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

5. Whose castle stands above the world like a last bastille in Poem 16?
(a) Rousseau's.
(b) Chopin's.
(c) Chagall's.
(d) Kafka's.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Long Street," the poet writes ""Oaklands of the soul /____ of the Imagination."

2. In "Autobiography," what are the French addicts of?

3. Where does the poet write of staggering blind after alleycats in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

4. The poet writes in "I Am Waiting" that he is waiting for a religious revival to sweep through the state of what?

5. Along with sleight-of-foot tricks, what does the poet perform in Poem 15?

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