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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. How would O'Hara describe himself in "Poem"?
(a) Sappy.
(b) Kind.
(c) Happy.
(d) Vicious.

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

3. Who recently died in ''In a Step Away from Them"?
(a) Kennedy.
(b) Franklin.
(c) Nixon.
(d) Pollock.

4. What flying animal does O'Hara describe in "Three Airs"?
(a) Dog.
(b) Sheep.
(c) Cat.
(d) Pig.

5. Where does "Image of the Buddha Preaching" take place?
(a) The Bahamas.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) The United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the suns look like in the poem "Alma"?

2. Who visits O'Hara in New York in "Poem (4)"?

3. What place does Alma miss when she moves to Detroit?

4. In what city does "Hotel Particulier" take place?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does O'Hara travel from to see Alma? Where does he go to see her?

2. What does O'Hara long to be at the end of "Three Airs," and what does he want to do?

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

4. In "Adieu to Norman, Bon Jour to Joan and Jean-Paul," how does O'Hara think that he needs to exist?

5. What is the weather like in "Music"?

6. In "Song," what does O'Hara discuss as being dirty?

7. What does "On the Way to San Remo" describe?

8. Whom does O'Hara have lunch with in "Personal Poem," and what do they discuss?

9. What does O'Hara assert we are not afraid of touching in "Song"?

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

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