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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "I Am Waiting," the poet says he is waiting for the Age of what to drop dead?
(a) Casualty.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Imposition.
(d) Diffidence.

2. In the poem, "Dog," what does the dog see in Chinatown windows?
(a) Chickens.
(b) Children.
(c) Drunks.
(d) Wontons.

3. The poet writes in "I Am Waiting," "I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for" what?
(a) Communism.
(b) Love.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Anarchy.

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

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

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

7. "By the time they print your picture / in ________ / you will have become a negative anyway" the poet writes in "Junkman's Obbligato."
(a) Times Magazine.
(b) New York Magazine.
(c) Life Magazine.
(d) The paper.

8. Where does the poet suggest sleeping in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Phone booths.
(b) Deserts.
(c) Caves.
(d) Churches.

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

10. In "The Long Street," it is the street of what?
(a) The women.
(b) The city.
(c) The world.
(d) The universe.

11. What does the poet speak of leaving behind on lampposts in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Boots.
(b) Shirts.
(c) Neckties.
(d) Watches.

12. The poet uses literary allusion in the line, "I'm tired of waiting for Godot." To which author is he referring?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Albert Camus.
(d) Arthur Miller.

13. Who does the poet refer to in the lines, "Take up the full beard/of walking anarchy"?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

14. The poet writes in "Junkman's Obbligato," "Let's go / smelling of _____."
(a) Petrol.
(b) Indigo.
(c) Sterno.
(d) Patchouli.

15. Whom does the poet say he is waiting for them to prove is really an American in "I Am Waiting"?
(a) The Pope.
(b) Ginsberg.
(c) Himself.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Meet Miss Subways," what is the year?

2. In "Autobiography," the author writes, "I landed in Normandy/in a rowboat that _______."

3. What will our eyes be watery with the empty bottles of in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

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

5. What is the name of the billiard parlor in "Autobiography"?

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