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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the author consider the poems in Chapter 2 to be?
(a) Dance poetry.
(b) Music poetry.
(c) Image poetry.
(d) Oral messages.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the poet get caught stealing in the Five and Dime store in "Autobiography"?

3. In "I Am Waiting" the poet writes he is waiting to write the great ____ poem.

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the author describe the poems of Chapter Two as "oral messages"?

2. Who is described in "Meet Miss Subways"?

3. What is admirable to the poet about the dog in "Dog"?

4. How is the street described in "The Long Street"?

5. What is the poem "Autobiography" about?

6. Describe the pop culture and literary references the author makes in "Autobiography."

7. What is the poet's meaning in "The Long Street"?

8. What events take place in "Christ Climbed Down"?

9. What are some of the things the poet is waiting for in "I Am Waiting"?

10. What does the poet suggest in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

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