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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, A Coney Island of the Mind.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Poem 10, the poet writes that beauty never dies, but lies among the aborigines of what?
(a) Truth.
(b) Art.
(c) Honey.
(d) Death.

2. With what expression does the woman look at the man in Poem 8?
(a) Lust.
(b) Love.
(c) Joy.
(d) Depression.

3. In Poem 6, whose statue were they putting up?
(a) St. Louis.
(b) St. Peter.
(c) St. Christopher.
(d) St. Francis.

4. The poet writes in Poem 13 that he would paint a different kind of what?
(a) Tragedy.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Paradiso.
(d) Bellissimo.

5. What painter kept painting, despite his mother's pleas in Poem 14?
(a) Chagall.
(b) Van Gogh.
(c) Monet.
(d) Picasso.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the woman in Poem 9 hate?

2. In Poem 24, the poet writes, "We squat upon the beach of love/ among Picasso _____ struck full of sand."

3. In Poem 12, what did the painting cry at him?

4. In Poem 21, the poet writes that "she" loved to look at flowers and smell fruit. What staggered through her sleep?

5. What is the heart compared to in Poem 25?

(see the answer key)

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