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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's idea of the country could be related best to which of the following?
(a) Prison.
(b) Death.
(c) Utopia.
(d) Socialism.

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

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

4. Where is the child's father?
(a) Dead.
(b) Working.
(c) Jail.
(d) Flophouse.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has impaired Ginsberg's mental condition?

2. Which word best describes Ginsberg's attitude about the specific weapon?

3. In which season was the poem written?

4. To what does Ginsberg compare the natural item?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is one of the main themes in this poem? To what does Ginsberg compare the flower?

3. How does the theme affect each person? Where does it appear?

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

5. What are the setting and characters featured in the poem? What is the main activity?

6. What is the child thinking about? How does it relate to his family?

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

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

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

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

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