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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Cornkind, How to Get There, A Little Travel Diary, Five Poems, Ave Maria.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Poem (4)," O'Hara say strangers appear to be ____________.
(a) Enemies.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Hateful.
(d) Friends.

2. What does the poem "Ave Maria" ask mothers to do?
(a) Take their children to church.
(b) Not to let their daughters date men like their fathers.
(c) Allow children to go to the movies.
(d) Pray for their sins.

3. What type of structure does O'Hara claim the person he thanks played in at the end of "Naphtha"?
(a) Churches.
(b) Libraries.
(c) Buildings.
(d) Bridges.

4. What do people believe about the city in "Song"?
(a) It is dirty.
(b) It is clean.
(c) It is friendly.
(d) It is violent.

5. What does O'Hara write in "Song," that does not perturb us?
(a) Cleaning toilets.
(b) Reading the news.
(c) Shaking someone's hand.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the location of the object O'Hara describes in "Rhapsody"?

2. What month does "How to Get There" take place?

3. What do people not believe at the end of "Alma"?

4. What type of people are on the bus in "On the Way to San Remo"?

5. What does O'Hara use as a metaphor in "Cornkind"?

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