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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "obbligato" mean?
(a) Opulent.
(b) Obsequious.
(c) Ordinary.
(d) Obligatory.

2. 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) Love.
(b) Communism.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Anarchy.

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

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

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

6. With whom did the author create an LP of the poems in Chapter 2?
(a) Jack Kerouac.
(b) Kenneth Rexroth.
(c) Allen Ginsberg.
(d) Moody Sanders.

7. Who did the poet believe he was, catching crayfish in the Bronx river in "Autobiography"?
(a) Jackson Browne.
(b) Huckleberry Finn.
(c) Tom Sawyer.
(d) William Rutledge.

8. In what way does the poet repeatedly change a line from the song "America" in ""Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) The stars shining black.
(b) Oh say can you sleep.
(c) My country lies of thee.
(d) My country tears of thee.

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

10. For whom is the poet waiting to act in "I Am Waiting"?
(a) The man.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Ike.
(d) The woman.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where do the "dogs do it" in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

4. In "The Long Street," the poet writes ""Oaklands of the soul /____ of the Imagination."

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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