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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is known as changing something to make it work for you?
(a) Transference.
(b) Transcription.
(c) Transmutation.
(d) Transportation.

2. Who is William Carlos Williams?
(a) Biographer.
(b) Poet.
(c) Critic.
(d) Senator.

3. What is the theme of this poem?
(a) Church music.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Worshipfulness.
(d) Gratitude.

4. Ginsberg stated that the meeting with Solomon was ____________.
(a) Indescribable.
(b) Enjoyable.
(c) Fruitless.
(d) Monumental.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the main complaints about the job?

2. The poet asks questions of whom?

3. Next to which product is the character seen?

4. Ginsberg makes it a point to embrace which of the following?

5. To Ginsberg, riches have little or nothing to do with which of the following?

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