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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ginsberg refers to which live object?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Trees.
(c) Weeds.
(d) Snakes.

2. What profession does this person practice?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Soldier.
(c) Dramatist.
(d) Farmworker.

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

4. Who shall not be defeated in the end?
(a) God.
(b) Artist.
(c) Man.
(d) Woman.

5. Which adjective best describes Ginsberg?
(a) Rude.
(b) Distraught.
(c) Perplexed.
(d) Melancholy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the theme of the poem?

2. Ginsberg was a big supporter of ___________.

3. Who is William Carlos Williams?

4. Who does Ginsberg imagine seeing in the supermarket?

5. The character comes from which country?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is William Carlos Williams?

2. What is Ginsberg's opinion of Whitman? How does the younger poet view the older, more famous poet?

3. How does the poet speak about the people of his generation?

4. What is Ginsberg's first encounter with Whitman?

5. What does Ginsberg say about the quality of the soul? Where does it fit into the theme?

6. What is the purpose of the vision? Does Ginsberg understand this purpose?

7. What were some of the issues of Ginsberg's generation?

8. What is one of the things that Ginsberg might discuss or dream about with Whitman on the way home?

9. What was involved in regard to some of the social and political action taken by Ginsberg's peers?

10. What was Ginsberg's relationship to Carl Solomon?

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