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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are people's lives described?
(a) Vacant.
(b) Absurd.
(c) Foolish.
(d) Overwhelming.

2. What color is the natural item?
(a) Blue.
(b) Brown.
(c) Green.
(d) Yellow.

3. In what city is the poem set?
(a) Paris.
(b) Guadalajara.
(c) New York.
(d) San Jose.

4. This emotion is always present where?
(a) In the back of one's mind.
(b) In the heart of a child.
(c) Everywhere.
(d) In dreams.

5. What is the main theme of the poem?
(a) Loss.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) Transience.
(d) Pace of life.

6. In the poem, the room in which Ginsberg lies is:
(a) Bright.
(b) Dark.
(c) Silent.
(d) Loud.

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

8. What has impaired Ginsberg's mental condition?
(a) Concussion.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Remorse.
(d) Alcohol.

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

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

11. The poem talks about returning to what?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Body.
(c) Hell.
(d) The earth.

12. The boy often has what?
(a) Seizures.
(b) Hysterical blindness.
(c) Hallucinations.
(d) Temper tantrums.

13. The song is inspired by whom?
(a) Mother.
(b) Father.
(c) Child.
(d) God.

14. What group is mentioned in the poem?
(a) Poets.
(b) Russians.
(c) Jews.
(d) Trotskyites.

15. What spiritual leader is mentioned in the poem?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Abraham.
(c) Moses.
(d) Buddha.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is used to describe fate?

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

3. A main theme of the poem is ______________.

4. Ginsberg believes that America is which of the following?

5. In which season was the poem written?

(see the answer keys)

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