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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does golf go on in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Burning Tree.
(b) Jackson Square.
(c) Central Park.
(d) Golden Gate.

2. How does the poet write of knowing whores in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Thirdhand.
(b) Secondhand.
(c) Vaguely.
(d) Firsthand.

3. In Chapter 2, the author writes that these poems were conceived specifically to be accompanied by what?
(a) Beat music.
(b) Tambourine.
(c) Blues music.
(d) Jazz music.

4. Where does "Autobiography" take place?
(a) Jackson Square Park.
(b) The Upper East Side.
(c) SoHo.
(d) Lower East Broadway.

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

6. How is "sister in the street" wearing her brassiere in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Backwards.
(b) Upside down.
(c) Around her neck.
(d) On the outside of her clothes.

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

8. What kind of pilots has the poet seen in "Autobiography"?
(a) African.
(b) Egyptian.
(c) Asian.
(d) Indian.

9. What is the poet waiting to just stop rolling along past the country club in "I Am Waiting"?
(a) The Jesus caravan.
(b) The Ship of Fools.
(c) Old Man River.
(d) The Silent Ship.

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

11. Who does the dog not hate but has no use for in "Dog"?
(a) Policemen.
(b) Vagrants.
(c) Drunks.
(d) Children.

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

13. In "Autobiography," who has the poet heard "strained through a sheet"?
(a) Bach.
(b) Chopin.
(c) Picasso.
(d) Debussy.

14. For whom is the poet waiting to grow up in "I Am Waiting"?
(a) Tom Swift.
(b) Peter Pan.
(c) Tom Sawyer.
(d) Oliver Swift.

15. Where do the subways stall and wait in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Over the river.
(b) At Coney Island.
(c) Under the bridge.
(d) Under the river.

Short Answer Questions

1. The poet writes he's selling everything and giving the rest to what in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

2. For whom is the poet waiting to act in "I Am Waiting"?

3. "By the time they print your picture / in ________ / you will have become a negative anyway" the poet writes in "Junkman's Obbligato."

4. The author writes in "Autobiography," "I once started out / to walk around the world / but ended up in ______."

5. The poets writes in "Junkman's Obbligato," "Let us not wait for ______ / to carry us triumphant / into the interior waving / at the natives."

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