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

2. What famous magazine is mentioned?
(a) Popular Mechanics.
(b) Life.
(c) Time.
(d) Field and Stream.

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

4. How far away is the child's father?
(a) 25 miles.
(b) 150 miles.
(c) 3 blocks.
(d) 1000 miles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What relative is mentioned in the poem?

2. What group is mentioned in the poem?

3. In the poem, the poet sees himself in what room?

4. What symbolic item is mentioned?

5. The poem talks about returning to what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How long will Ginsberg continue to work at Greyhound? What is his opinion of the wage and capitalism?

3. What is the setting for this poem? When was it written?

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

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

6. What is the main theme of this poem? What is the poet's opinion of the theme?

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

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

9. What is the burden one must carry? How should one react to this burden?

10. What path of thought does the item inspire?

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