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

2. In Poem 21, the poet writes that "she" loved to look at flowers and smell fruit. What staggered through her sleep?
(a) Wolves in tiger garb.
(b) Halfass drunken sailors.
(c) Poets and madmen.
(d) Goats among the sheep.

3. In what way does the poet repeatedly change a line from the song "America" in ""Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) My country tears of thee.
(b) The stars shining black.
(c) My country lies of thee.
(d) Oh say can you sleep.

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

5. How does the poet write of knowing whores in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Thirdhand.
(b) Secondhand.
(c) Firsthand.
(d) Vaguely.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Long Street," the poet writes ""Oaklands of the soul /____ of the Imagination."

2. The poet writes of staggering into what kind of sunsets in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

3. What will be "stuck to our pants" years later in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

4. Besides the Gettysburg address, what other address has the author heard, according to "Autobiography"?

5. In Poem 27, what tolled twice, once for the birth of love and once for the death?

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