1 Who does Ezekiel compare the poet to in "A Time to Change"? A culinary connoisseur A teacher for the poor A stubborn workman A college professor 2 What piece of art does the speaker analyze in Ezekiel's first collection of poetry? Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein An African mask A piece of modern Indian art A neoclassical building 3 In "The Double Horror" what corrupts the speaker? drunknenness the city the world religion 4 What is the main concern of "On Meeting a Pedant"? the power of written text over spoken text the power of lived experiences over text the power of spoken text over written text the best writing mirroring lived experience 5 Which of these names is the title of a poem from "A Time to Change"? Robert Joseph John Richard 6 Complete these lines from "The Worm": "Only in _____ can I emulate / The worm's _____" admiration, power calmness, lucidity admiration, directness anger, directness 7 What is a contradiction at work in "The Worm"? the speaker sees himself as being dryer and more wet than the worm at the same time the speaker uses "God" and "god" in the same poem, which puts the ideological framework of the poem into question the speaker calls himself an old man and then receals that he is actually very young the speaker believes that he is freer than the worm because the worm is freer than him 8 Where are the speaker and his lover in "An Affair"? A zoo The cinema The theater A party 9 What does the speaker refer to as "not the final station" in "Something to Pursue"? Gethsemane Glory Jerusalem Beatitude 10 Who does the speaker speak to in "Advice"? A child A dying man His lover A stranger on the street 11 What, among these, does the speaker advise the other person to do in "Advice"? To be brave To be tolerant To be happy To be steafast 12 What is Ezekiel's second collection of poetry called? The Scorpion The Stone Sixty Poems A Time to Change 13 What thing does Ezekiel mention in the second poem of "Sixty Poems"? A stone A house A tree A rock 14 Where does the speaker's companion place her hand in "Situation"? Upon the speaker's knee On her glasses On the rim of her glass In her hair 15 What material does Ezekiel use in order to emphasize hardness in "Lines"? bone plastic wood metal 16 How did the speaker turn out in "Portrait"? creative happy luxurious serious 17 Who does Ezekiel dedicate a poem to in "Sixty Poems"? William Carlos Williams T.S. Elliott Getrude Stein Ezra Pound 18 What part of the subject's body does the speaker decide to describe first in "Description"? her knees her hair her breasts her hands 19 Fill in the blank: "______, the great consumer, cancels all." Nothingness God Time Death 20 What is the speaker unable to think about "out to the end"? Death Time Life God 21 What "plays hide and seek with winter days" in "Song for Spring"? His lover Spring His curiosity His own vanity 22 What two perspectives does Ezekiel play with in "Nakedness"? The voice of the person who is naked and the voice of someone watching him The voice of the person who is naked and the voice of his lover, who is also naked The voice of the person who is naked as he regards himself and the voice of the person who is naked as he regards his lover The voice of the person who is naked's lover and the voice of the bed as it watches them make love 23 What animal does Ezekiel dedicate a poem to in "Sixty Poems"? Dogs Elephants Dolphins Squirrels 24 Which French artist is NOT mentioned in Ezekiel's writing? Verlaine Flaubert Balzac Baudelaire 25 Where does the speaker see the "female image" in the poem of the same title? "On the lonely pillow in the single room" "Beside the Thames" "Walking in deserted streets" "In these waters"
