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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ginsberg dream about?
(a) Sailing the high seas.
(b) Satiating desires.
(c) Flying.
(d) Becoming rich.

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

3. What was a hobby of the father's?
(a) Hot rods.
(b) Boats.
(c) Trains.
(d) Baseball.

4. Ginsberg believes that America is which of the following?
(a) Corrupt.
(b) Broke.
(c) Sadly mistaken.
(d) Perfect.

5. What word is used to describe the racks?
(a) Rickety.
(b) Shiny.
(c) Empty.
(d) Old.

6. What do they walk by?
(a) Cat.
(b) Orphanage.
(c) Dead flowers.
(d) Railroad.

7. What symbolic item is mentioned?
(a) Red Sea.
(b) Bhodi tree.
(c) Arc of the Covenant.
(d) Crown of thorns.

8. Ginsberg sees the racks as being created to keep what together?
(a) Dry cleaning.
(b) Trunks.
(c) Coats.
(d) People.

9. How many packages are left on the cart?
(a) 8.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 12.

10. To what does Ginsberg compare the natural item?
(a) Industry.
(b) Greed.
(c) Love.
(d) Spirit.

11. Ginsberg talks about his job in relation to which of the following?
(a) Suffering.
(b) Ambivalence.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Sorrow.

12. What is the name of the place mentioned?
(a) Avon.
(b) Albany.
(c) Anchorage.
(d) Arden.

13. What year was the poem written?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1957.

14. What is the weapon?
(a) Chemical warfare.
(b) Atomic bomb.
(c) Nuclear bomb.
(d) Pellet gun.

15. What body of water is nearby?
(a) Stream.
(b) River.
(c) Puddle.
(d) Ocean.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does Ginsberg perform?

2. Ginsberg has not touched what in months?

3. In what city is the poem set?

4. How far away is the child's father?

5. How are people's lives described?

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