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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through For the Chinese New Year & For Bill Berkson.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whom does Alma miss when she moves to Detroit?
(a) Her children.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her dead mother.
(d) Her dead father.

3. What emotion is O'Hara feeling at the start of "In Memoir of Sergei O"?
(a) Livid.
(b) Joy.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Peace.

4. Whom does O'Hara thank for the music at the end of "Naphtha"?
(a) Bowie.
(b) Duke Ellington.
(c) Louis Armstrong.
(d) Bing Crosby.

5. In "Poem" how does O'Hara convince the man to sleep with him?
(a) He drugs him.
(b) He flatters him.
(c) He emotionally devastates him.
(d) He begs him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people not care for in ''For the Chinese New Year & For Bill Berkson''?

2. In "Mary Desti's Ass," where has O'Hara never has a bad time?

3. What is the weather condition where O'Hara finds his love in "Mary Desti's Ass"?

4. Who recently died in ''In a Step Away from Them"?

5. What does O'Hara write in "Song," that does not perturb us?

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