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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 5, in what year does the poet write the Dead Sea Scrolls are found?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1947.
2. In Poem 10, the poet writes that beauty never dies, but lies among the aborigines of what?
(a) Death.
(b) Truth.
(c) Honey.
(d) Art.
3. What does the woman in Poem 9 have that are bad?
(a) Skin.
(b) Eyes.
(c) Teeth.
(d) Hair.
4. In Poem 6, what wouldn't sing where the statue was being erected?
(a) Girls.
(b) Choirs.
(c) Birds.
(d) Angels.
5. What is the heart compared to in Poem 25?
(a) A fish.
(b) A mandolin.
(c) A harp.
(d) A tree.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are the "gay cows" chanting in Poem 2?
2. In poem 2, where does the poet say "we" were sailing through the streets?
3. In Poem 21, the poet writes that "she" loved to look at flowers and smell fruit. What staggered through her sleep?
4. Where did the Widder Fogliani have whiskers?
5. In Poem 11, the poet writes that "the wounded wilderness of _____ is not the same as the wild west."
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