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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom is the poet waiting to act in "I Am Waiting"?

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

3. The poets writes in "Junkman's Obbligato," "Let us not wait for ______ / to carry us triumphant / into the interior waving / at the natives."

4. With whom did the author create an LP of the poems in Chapter 2?

5. In "I Am Waiting," Ferlinghetti writes that he is waiting for what to be stored?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Autobiography," to what animal does the poet compare himself? What has he seen?

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

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

4. What is the poem "Autobiography" about?

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

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

7. What is the underlying meaning of the poem "I Am Waiting"?

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

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

10. Describe the dog in the poem, "Dog."

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the poem "Junkman's Obbligato" from Chapter Two. What is unique about the use of rhyme and meter in this poem? In what ways is the poem a rallying cry?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the animal imagery prominent in Poem 11 of Chapter One. In this poem, the author writes, "The wounded wilderness of Morris Graves / is not the same wild west / the white man found." How does he go one to describe it?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the poems of Chapter 2 in comparison to the poems of the rest of the collection. How are these different in style? What are the common themes?

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