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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Oral Messages.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In poem 29, the poet writes of what character from The Sun Also Rises?
(a) Robert Cohn.
(b) Brett Parker.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Jackson Stowe.

2. What can never fade into a money-losing nothingness in Poem 10?
(a) Death.
(b) Love.
(c) Truth.
(d) Beauty.

3. In Poem 19, the poet writes, "like every morning with its sharp shadows shadowing a ______."
(a) Paradise.
(b) Landing.
(c) Night.
(d) Horror.

4. In "The Long Street," it is the street of what?
(a) The universe.
(b) The women.
(c) The city.
(d) The world.

5. Along with sleight-of-foot tricks, what does the poet perform in Poem 15?
(a) Tumbles.
(b) Pirouettes.
(c) Leaps.
(d) Entrechats.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 18, how does the poet feel of his own voice and the sound of birds?

2. Where will "we" be puking in, "wailing for a winter coat," in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

3. What park is referred to in Poem 8?

4. In "I Am Waiting" the poet writes he is waiting to write the great ____ poem.

5. The poet writes in "I Am Waiting," "I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for" what?

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