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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ginsberg makes it a point to embrace which of the following?
(a) Education.
(b) Sheet music.
(c) Nature.
(d) Cello.

2. According to Ginsberg what is related to "quiet beauty?"
(a) Home.
(b) Sleeping child.
(c) Breeze.
(d) Soul.

3. Who is seen by Ginsberg?
(a) Burglar.
(b) Creator.
(c) President.
(d) Prostitute.

4. Which is the jumping off point for Ginsberg's thoughts?
(a) Howl.
(b) Kaddish.
(c) Wild Orphan.
(d) Moloch.

5. Who is with Ginsberg in the poem?
(a) Whitman.
(b) Kerouac.
(c) Solomon.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the people waiting for?

2. Which of the following was very important to Ginsberg?

3. In what city did Ginsberg live?

4. In the poem, the poet sees himself in what room?

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

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