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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 repeated refrain in Poem 27?
(a) Dove sta amore.
(b) Il vueno amore.
(c) Dolce amore.
(d) C'est amore.

2. What does the author consider the poems in Chapter 2 to be?
(a) Image poetry.
(b) Music poetry.
(c) Oral messages.
(d) Dance poetry.

3. What will be "stuck to our pants" years later in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Mud and debris.
(b) Cement.
(c) Chalked up ponies.
(d) Cigarette papers.

4. Besides the Gettysburg address, what other address has the author heard, according to "Autobiography"?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Ginsberg.
(c) Kerouac.
(d) Home.

5. In "I Am Waiting," Ferlinghetti writes that he is waiting for what to be stored?
(a) The Last Judgment.
(b) The Sun Also Rises.
(c) The Grapes of Wrath.
(d) The Holy Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 5, the guy who shows up late is a kind of what?

2. In Poem 6, whose statue were they putting up?

3. In "I Am Waiting" the poet writes he is waiting to write the great ____ poem.

4. In Poem 15, what does a poet climb onto of his own making?

5. What is the poet waiting to just stop rolling along past the country club in "I Am Waiting"?

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