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

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

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

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

5. In "I Am Waiting," the poet writes he is waiting for someone to really discover what?
(a) Truth.
(b) Beauty.
(c) America.
(d) Poetry.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is the place in the ending of "The Long Street" described?

3. What does the author say of money in the poem, "Autobiography"?

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

5. Describe the train in "Meet Miss Subways." How is this tied to its theme?

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

7. What does the poet suggest to the reader in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

8. What are the major points of "Autobiography"?

9. What are the prominent themes of "Christ Climbed Down"?

10. What is the poem "Autobiography" about?

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