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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. What is the poet waiting to just stop rolling along past the country club in "I Am Waiting"?
(a) The Silent Ship.
(b) Old Man River.
(c) The Jesus caravan.
(d) The Ship of Fools.

2. The author writes in "Autobiography," "I once started out / to walk around the world / but ended up in ______."
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Venezuela.
(d) Brooklyn.

3. The poets writes in "Junkman's Obbligato," "Let us not wait for ______ / to carry us triumphant / into the interior waving / at the natives."
(a) Chariots.
(b) Unicorns.
(c) Cadillacs.
(d) Firemouth.

4. Who did the poet believe he was, catching crayfish in the Bronx river in "Autobiography"?
(a) Jackson Browne.
(b) Tom Sawyer.
(c) William Rutledge.
(d) Huckleberry Finn.

5. Where does the poet ask to go in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Paris.
(b) Isle of Manisfree.
(c) Athens.
(d) Rome.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the heart compared to in Poem 25?

2. What is the literary allusion in Poem 2?

3. In "I Am Waiting," the poet says he is waiting for the Age of what to drop dead?

4. What are the "patriotic maidens" wearing in Poem 2?

5. In "Autobiography," where is the poet leading a quiet life?

(see the answer key)

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