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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. This emotion is always present where?
(a) Everywhere.
(b) In the heart of a child.
(c) In dreams.
(d) In the back of one's mind.

2. Who is with Ginsberg in the poem?
(a) Whitman.
(b) Kerouac.
(c) Solomon.
(d) No one.

3. People may also become obsessed with ____________.
(a) Cars.
(b) Machines.
(c) Politics.
(d) Money.

4. What year was the poem written?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1953.

5. What spiritual leader is mentioned in the poem?
(a) Buddha.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Abraham.
(d) Moses.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the poem written?

2. What has impaired Ginsberg's mental condition?

3. Ginsberg has not touched what in months?

4. What are the people waiting for?

5. What has sacrificed itself?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the child thinking about? How does it relate to his family?

2. What is the point of the poem? What is the poet's conclusion?

3. What path of thought does the item inspire?

4. What is an asphodel? How does it compare to Ginsberg's concept of desire?

5. What is at least one of Ginsberg's comments about the racks and baggage?

6. What is Ginsberg's comment about immigrants and their treatment in America?

7. In what room in his apartment does the poet talk about his needs? What is his condition?

8. What is one of the main themes in this poem? To what does Ginsberg compare the flower?

9. What is the poet's feeling about physical passion and the enjoyment of it?

10. How does the poem end? What is the inference of things to come?

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