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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Personal Poem, Adieu to Norman, Bon Jour to Joan and Jean-Paul, Rhapsody, Hotel Particulier.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Alma at the end of the poem?
(a) She joins the circus.
(b) She becomes a banker.
(c) She has five children.
(d) She becomes a legend.

2. Where is O'Hara walking at the start of "Poem"?
(a) To a bar.
(b) To school.
(c) In Central Park.
(d) To his apartment.

3. In "Poem," O'Hara wants _____________ to bring him a cup of tea.
(a) A sommelier.
(b) A friend.
(c) A coffee shop waitress.
(d) A samovar.

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

5. What do people believe about the city in "Song"?
(a) It is clean.
(b) It is violent.
(c) It is friendly.
(d) It is dirty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom is O'Hara supposed to have dinner with in "The Day Lady Died"?

2. What does O'Hara write is over the water in "Three Airs"?

3. How will warm tea improve O'Hara?

4. Whose assault does O'Hara discuss in "Personal Poem"?

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

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