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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In "The Long Street," the poet writes ""Oaklands of the soul /____ of the Imagination."
(a) Dublins.
(b) Chicagos.
(c) New Yorks.
(d) New Orleans.

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

4. The author writes in "Autobiography," "I once started out / to walk around the world / but ended up in ______."
(a) Mexico.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Venezuela.

5. In "I Am Waiting" the poet writes he is waiting to write the great ____ poem.
(a) Honest.
(b) Indelible.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Rhythmic.

6. Where does the poet ask to go in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Rome.
(b) Athens.
(c) Isle of Manisfree.
(d) Paris.

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

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

9. Who is the author waiting to come to the "final darkest tower" in "I Am Waiting"?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) God.
(c) Alice in Wonderland.
(d) Childe Roland.

10. In "Autobiography," where was the poet when Rome was built?
(a) Europe.
(b) America.
(c) India.
(d) Japan.

11. What will our eyes be watery with the empty bottles of in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Muscatel.
(c) Rum.
(d) Mescal.

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

13. In "Autobiography," where is the poet leading a quiet life?
(a) Golden Gate.
(b) Jack's Place.
(c) The sunset.
(d) Mike's Place.

14. The poet writes in "I Am Waiting," that he is waiting for the deepest South to just stop what?
(a) Murdering itself.
(b) Reconstructing itself.
(c) Castrating itself.
(d) Terrorizing itself.

15. The poet writes in "I Am Waiting" that he is waiting for God to look to see the Ode to the Confederate Dead as a real what?
(a) Joy.
(b) Farce.
(c) Irony.
(d) Tragedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the subways stall and wait in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

2. How does the poet write of knowing whores in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

3. Besides the Gettysburg address, what other address has the author heard, according to "Autobiography"?

4. The benches are filled with what kind of discarded statues in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

5. Whom does the poet say he is waiting for them to prove is really an American in "I Am Waiting"?

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