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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Poem 17, what kind of pierrots castrate disaster?
(a) Candy-striped.
(b) Elegant.
(c) White-faced.
(d) Pantomimic.

2. What does the woman in Poem 9 have that are bad?
(a) Eyes.
(b) Hair.
(c) Teeth.
(d) Skin.

3. What are the "patriotic maidens" wearing in Poem 2?
(a) Rectangle glasses.
(b) Fur stoles.
(c) Paper poppies.
(d) Paper hats.

4. What kind of clowns "always making up imaginary scenes with all our masks for faces" does the poet refer to in Poem 16?
(a) Emmett Kelly.
(b) Jubilant juggling.
(c) Flat faced.
(d) Smoke-stenched.

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

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

7. In Poem 19, the poet writes, "like every morning with its sharp shadows shadowing a ______."
(a) Night.
(b) Paradise.
(c) Horror.
(d) Landing.

8. What does the woman in Poem 9 hate?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Jewelry.
(c) Love.
(d) Flowers.

9. What went mad in Poem 7?
(a) The children.
(b) The leaves.
(c) The birds.
(d) The fairies.

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

11. What is in the bathtubs in Poem 2?
(a) Tigers.
(b) Eagles.
(c) Monsters.
(d) Elephants.

12. What is the literary allusion in Poem 2?
(a) The Iliad.
(b) Walden.
(c) On the Road.
(d) The Grapes of Wrath.

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

14. Along with sleight-of-foot tricks, what does the poet perform in Poem 15?
(a) Leaps.
(b) Pirouettes.
(c) Entrechats.
(d) Tumbles.

15. In Poem 20, what did the leaves cry?
(a) Leave!
(b) Too soon!
(c) Fall beneath me!
(d) Sleep son!

Short Answer Questions

1. What painter kept painting, despite his mother's pleas in Poem 14?

2. In Poem 27, what tolled twice, once for the birth of love and once for the death?

3. In Poem 15, what does a poet climb onto of his own making?

4. In Poem 4, the poet writes of dead sunflowers and live what?

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

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