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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Earlier poems: Song.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Ginsberg, one can attain happiness though which of the following?
(a) Money.
(b) Social position.
(c) Choice.
(d) Designer clothes.

2. If people are not careful they will end up experiencing which one of the following?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Empty lives.
(c) Hell.
(d) Death.

3. Some writers ended up where?
(a) In the Bowery.
(b) Madison Avenue.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) California.

4. Ginsberg believes that people should focus on ________________.
(a) How they treat each other.
(b) Family.
(c) Charity.
(d) God.

5. HOWL can be seen as a plea for ______________.
(a) Retribution.
(b) Brotherly love.
(c) Solidarity.
(d) Help.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of the poem Ginsberg laments ___________.

2. The friend equates what to the item?

3. This emotion is inherent in what?

4. The US is often compared to what?

5. Williams says that Ginsberg often found his life experiences to be ____________.

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