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

2. What kind of two-step does the poet write about in Poem 9?
(a) Aztec.
(b) Barbarian.
(c) Romanian.
(d) Athenian.

3. In Poem 16, the poet writes, "Yet away around on the far side like the stage door of a circus tent is a wide wide vent in the _______."
(a) Universe.
(b) Prison.
(c) Battlements.
(d) Chamber.

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

5. What does the poet do with all the old ladies in Poem 18?
(a) Rouses their confidence.
(b) Wakens their dreams.
(c) Kisses them sleeping.
(d) Makes them young again.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 18, how does the poet feel of his own voice and the sound of birds?

2. What is in the bathtubs in Poem 2?

3. What is the woman carrying in Poem 8?

4. What do the "falcons of the inner eye" do in Poem 11?

5. What is the literary allusion in Poem 2?

(see the answer key)

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