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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) Obligatory.
(c) Ordinary.
(d) Obsequious.

2. What is the name of the billiard parlor in "Autobiography"?
(a) Dante.
(b) Mike.
(c) Homer.
(d) Jack.

3. 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) The Silent Ship.
(d) Old Man River.

4. Where do the "dogs do it" in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Over the Hill.
(b) In the Black Forest.
(c) In the Backyard.
(d) Upon the Mountain.

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

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

7. What does the poet say we'll dry our drawers on in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Bonfires.
(b) Garbage fires.
(c) Newspapers.
(d) Coal ovens.

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

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

10. What did the poet get caught stealing in the Five and Dime store in "Autobiography"?
(a) Pencils.
(b) Candy.
(c) Soda.
(d) Toys.

11. The poets writes in "Junkman's Obbligato," "Let us not wait for ______ / to carry us triumphant / into the interior waving / at the natives."
(a) Unicorns.
(b) Cadillacs.
(c) Firemouth.
(d) Chariots.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What will be "stuck to our pants" years later in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

3. The poet writes of staggering into what kind of sunsets in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

4. In "Autobiography," who has the poet heard "strained through a sheet"?

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

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