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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What type of building is mentioned?
(a) Marina.
(b) Toll booth.
(c) Skyscraper.
(d) Shack.

3. Which word best describes the child?
(a) Happy.
(b) Studious.
(c) Nostalgic.
(d) Carefree.

4. In the poem "mad" refers to ____________.
(a) Anger.
(b) Lust.
(c) Release.
(d) Insanity.

5. With what might one become obsessed?
(a) Madness.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Angels.
(d) Poetry.

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

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

8. Ginsberg had an ambition to become which of the following?
(a) Rabbi.
(b) Cartoonist.
(c) President.
(d) Sailor.

9. At the end of the poem Ginsberg laments ___________.
(a) Lost friendship.
(b) Hangover.
(c) Running out of food.
(d) Being unfilled.

10. Which is not a main theme of the poem?
(a) Reconciliation.
(b) Love.
(c) Walking.
(d) Yearning.

11. What is one of the main complaints about the job?
(a) Low wages.
(b) Room is too cold.
(c) Mean people.
(d) Long hours.

12. What relative is mentioned in the poem?
(a) Brother Jacob.
(b) Cousin Carl.
(c) Aunt Ethel.
(d) Uncle Max.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. This emotion is inherent in what?

2. What is the weapon?

3. The poem talks about returning to what?

4. What is the main theme of the poem?

5. What spiritual leader is mentioned in the poem?

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