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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) Depression.
(b) Love.
(c) Joy.
(d) Lust.

2. In Poem 6, what wouldn't sing where the statue was being erected?
(a) Girls.
(b) Choirs.
(c) Birds.
(d) Angels.

3. What do the "falcons of the inner eye" do in Poem 11?
(a) Dance and cry.
(b) Sing and cry.
(c) Dive and die.
(d) Scream and die.

4. In Poem 21, from the other side of what do the green birds sing?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Truth.
(c) Silence.
(d) Memory.

5. In poem 29, the poet writes of what character from The Sun Also Rises?
(a) Robert Cohn.
(b) Brett Parker.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Jackson Stowe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What park is referred to in Poem 8?

2. In Poem 15, what stands and waits to perform her own death-defying leap?

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

4. In poem 2, where does the poet say "we" were sailing through the streets?

5. Where did the Widder Fogliani have whiskers?

(see the answer key)

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