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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 is overwhelming to Ginsberg?
(a) Industry.
(b) Pollution.
(c) Politics.
(d) Religion.

2. What do they walk by?
(a) Railroad.
(b) Cat.
(c) Orphanage.
(d) Dead flowers.

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

4. What is constructed in the poem?
(a) Soul.
(b) Industry.
(c) Miracle.
(d) Sacrifice.

5. Which word best describes Ginsberg's attitude about the specific weapon?
(a) Curiosity.
(b) Abhorrence.
(c) Loathing.
(d) Joy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an asphodel?

2. What kind of transportation line is Greyhound?

3. People are described as being ____________.

4. What emotion do we carry through life?

5. This emotion is always present where?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what room in his apartment does the poet talk about his needs? What is his condition?

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

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

5. What path of thought does the item inspire?

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

7. What is the point of the poem? What is the poet's conclusion?

8. What is Ginsberg's comment about immigrants and their treatment in America?

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

10. Where does Ginsberg work in this poem? What is his position? What are people waiting for?

(see the answer keys)

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