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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Widder Fogliani have whiskers?

2. In Poem 6, whose statue were they putting up?

3. In Poem 5, in what year does the poet write the Dead Sea Scrolls are found?

4. What are the "gay cows" chanting in Poem 2?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Poem 4 about in Chapter One? What imagery is used?

2. What does Chagall do in Poem 14 of Chapter One?

3. Describe the woman in Poem 21 of Chapter One.

4. Detail the events which take place in Poem 8, in Golden Gate Park.

5. In Chapter One, where does Poem 20 take place? With what does the poet fall in love?

6. Poem 3 of Chapter One describes other visions of America. What are they?

7. What is the Paradiso in Poem 13 of Chapter One?

8. What is the metaphor for a poet in Poem 15 of Chapter One?

9. What is the statue described as in Poem 6 of Chapter One?

10. What does the poet write about Beauty in Poem 10 of Chapter One?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Poem 2 of "A Coney Island of the Mind" begins, "Sailing thru the straits of Demos / we saw symbolic birds / shrieking over us." Describe the bird and animal imagery in this poem and how they relates to the poem's themes.

Essay Topic 2

Poem 5 of "A Coney Island of the Mind" describes "a kind of carpenter / from some square-type place / like Galilee." Describe the religious imagery and themes of this poem.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the reference to Congressman Doyle in the poem "Dog." Who was this figure in history? How does this figure connect to the author?

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