CHICAGO by Carl Sandburg (common lit) 1. Part A: Which statement describes the main theme of the poem?
A. Chicago is not perfect, but it is powerful and impressive in its own way.
B. The city has an unconventional beauty that is appreciated by very few.
C. Chicago is an unforgiving place that is not for the faint-hearted.
D. A city as good or bad as the people who live in it.
2. Part B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?
A. "They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys."
B. "And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger."
C. "Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."
D. "Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his ribs the heart of the people, Laughing!"