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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 does O'Hara write is over the water in "Three Airs"?
(a) A rainbow.
(b) Bridges.
(c) Poplars.
(d) A swing.

2. What object does O'Hara describe in "Rhapsody"?
(a) A building.
(b) A statue.
(c) A fountain.
(d) A table.

3. In "Personal Poem" with whom does O'Hara eat?
(a) James Spader.
(b) Malcom X.
(c) LeRoi Jones.
(d) Warhol.

4. In "Poem (4)," what does O'Hara debate with friends?
(a) Literature.
(b) Smoking.
(c) The weather.
(d) Politics.

5. At the start of "Poem (4)," with whom does O'Hara chat?
(a) A banker.
(b) A baker.
(c) A homeless man.
(d) A cabbie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bird does O'Hara describe in "Three Airs"?

2. What is lacking in O'Hara's journey in "Hotel Particulier"?

3. What location does O'Hara wish to be free from at the end of "Three Airs"?

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

5. In the poem "Three Airs" what objects are in the space O'Hara describes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is O'Hara's opinion of his trip to Paris in "Hotel Particulier"?

2. Who does the Buddha compare and contrast in "Image of the Buddha Preaching"?

3. List two things O'Hara describes in "On the Way to San Remo" and how he describes them.

4. Whose death does O'Hara think about in "A Step Away From Them," and what does he think about them?

5. What is the poem "Alma" about, and how does he describe her?

6. What is the significance of the building in "Rhapsody"?

7. Where is O'Hara in "2 Poems from the O'Hara Monogatari," and what does he do there?

8. What causes O'Hara to feel mad in "On Rachmaninoff's Birthday"?

9. What does "Poem (2)" discuss?

10. What does O'Hara refer to Manhattan as in "Rhapsody" and why?

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