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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does O'Hara think about humanity in "For the Chinese New Year & For Bill Berkson"?
(a) It is failing.
(b) It is evolving.
(c) It is thriving.
(d) It is enlightened.

2. What does O'Hara use as a metaphor in "Cornkind"?
(a) Children.
(b) Corn.
(c) Fire.
(d) Popcorn.

3. Where does O'Hara find his love in "Mary Desti's Ass"?
(a) Harbin.
(b) Iceland.
(c) Queens.
(d) Orlando.

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

5. What does O'Hara want people to free themselves from in ''For the Chinese New Year & For Bill Berkson''?
(a) Hate.
(b) Earthly needs.
(c) Money.
(d) Self.

6. In "Five Poems," what does O'Hara question about himself?
(a) Whether he is kind.
(b) Whether he is deluded.
(c) Whether he is in love.
(d) Whether he is truthful.

7. Who is the epigram at the start of "For the Chinese New Year & For Bill Berkson" written by?
(a) Hugo.
(b) Lawrence.
(c) Mays.
(d) Port.

8. In "St. Paul and All That," O'Hara writes about what disappearing?
(a) Money.
(b) Love.
(c) Friends.
(d) War.

9. In "For the Chinese New Year & For Bill Berkson," what is O'Hara's generation going to do?
(a) Love.
(b) Survive.
(c) Destroy.
(d) Build.

10. What do Woman lie about in "How to Get There"?
(a) Address.
(b) Age.
(c) Phone Numbers.
(d) Weight.

11. Where does O'Hara dread going in "In Memoir of Sergei O"?
(a) The United States.
(b) Paris.
(c) Russia.
(d) Italy.

12. What is the location of "In Memoir of Sergei O" devoid of according to O'Hara?
(a) Food.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Trees.
(d) Money.

13. What month does "How to Get There" take place?
(a) October.
(b) March.
(c) May.
(d) July.

14. What spreads through the alleyways in "How to Get There"?
(a) Water.
(b) Blood.
(c) Fog.
(d) Rats.

15. In "For the Chinese New Year & For Bill Berkson," what does O'Hara assert is behind order and kindness?
(a) An enraged face.
(b) A man.
(c) A woman.
(d) Laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "How to Get There," O'Hara writes that the city is filled with__________.

2. How does everyone act in O'Hara's vision of New York in "Steps"?

3. According to O'Hara in "For the Chinese New Year & For Bill Berkson," who exists?

4. In "Steps," what do women wear in O'Hara's vision of New York?

5. In "Cornkind," what is the boy's connection to his past?

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