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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) C'est amore.
(d) Dolce amore.

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

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

4. What are the "patriotic maidens" wearing in Poem 2?
(a) Fur stoles.
(b) Paper poppies.
(c) Paper hats.
(d) Rectangle glasses.

5. In Poem 21, from the other side of what do the green birds sing?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Memory.
(c) Truth.
(d) Silence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose castle stands above the world like a last bastille in Poem 16?

2. What went mad in Poem 7?

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

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

5. With what expression does the woman look at the man in Poem 8?

(see the answer key)

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