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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 24, the poet writes, "We squat upon the beach of love/ among Picasso _____ struck full of sand."
(a) Paintings.
(b) Violins.
(c) Mandolins.
(d) Villages.

2. In what month does Poem 20 take place, when the poet first falls in love?
(a) October.
(b) September.
(c) November.
(d) July.

3. In Poem 5, in what year does the poet write the Dead Sea Scrolls are found?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1947.

4. In Poem 3, the poet writes of fur leaves and cobalt what?
(a) Seas.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Skies.
(d) Flowers.

5. In Poem 13, the poet writes of Dante discovering what?
(a) A tragedy.
(b) A mountain.
(c) A commedia.
(d) A nymph.

Short Answer Questions

1. In poem 29, the poet writes of what character from The Sun Also Rises?

2. In Poem 3, the poet writes, "its America with its ghost towns and empty ________."

3. In Poem 1, the author writes that in the paintings of Goya we see the people of the world when "they first attained the title of" what?

4. What does the poet do with all the old ladies in Poem 18?

5. 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 _______."

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