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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Earlier poems: In Back of the Real.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ginsberg embraces which of the following?
(a) Puzzles.
(b) Summer.
(c) Joy.
(d) Simplicity.

2. Where is the child's father?
(a) Dead.
(b) Working.
(c) Flophouse.
(d) Jail.

3. Which first experience is referred to by Ginsberg?
(a) Academic.
(b) Metaphysical.
(c) Sexual.
(d) Self-controlled.

4. What emotion do we carry through life?
(a) Love.
(b) Hate.
(c) Guilt.
(d) Anger.

5. Which part of a person is referred to in the footnote?
(a) Heart.
(b) Hands.
(c) Head.
(d) Soul.

Short Answer Questions

1. On which item do the friends sit?

2. Ginsberg thinks about which famous poet?

3. Who is with Ginsberg in the poem?

4. What symbolic item is mentioned?

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

(see the answer key)

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