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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. What job does Ginsberg perform?
(a) Janitor.
(b) Baggage Clerk.
(c) Security Guard.
(d) Supervisor.

2. In what year was the poem written?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1954.

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

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

5. Ginsberg has not touched what in months?
(a) Newspaper.
(b) Person.
(c) Telephone.
(d) Book.

Short Answer Questions

1. The song is inspired by whom?

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

3. What are the people waiting for?

4. What is the final wish?

5. What is overwhelming to Ginsberg?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is at least one of Ginsberg's comments about the racks and baggage?

2. What childhood memory of politics does Ginsberg recall? How do those memories affect the present?

3. What is the child's condition and outlook upon his surroundings?

4. What is the poet's feeling about physical passion and the enjoyment of it?

5. Aside from housing personal baggage, what does Ginsberg believe is the purpose of the racks?

6. What item catches Ginsberg's eye? Where is it?

7. How should one behave in the giving and receiving of love? Where does this habit originate?

8. What path of thought does the item inspire?

9. What is an asphodel? How does it compare to Ginsberg's concept of desire?

10. How does the poem end? What is the inference of things to come?

(see the answer keys)

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