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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 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 _______."
(a) Battlements.
(b) Prison.
(c) Chamber.
(d) Universe.

2. In Poem 7, the poet writes, "What could she say to the fantastic _____
(a) God.
(b) Eagle.
(c) Cardinal.
(d) Foolybear.

3. What is the Widder Fogliani otherwise known as?
(a) Bella Gloria.
(b) Bella Lana.
(c) Bella Sara.
(d) Bella Donna.

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

5. In Poem 5, the guy who shows up late is a kind of what?
(a) Highwayman.
(b) Carpenter.
(c) Jeweler.
(d) Hustler.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 12, where did he hound the leaded ground?

2. What kind of clowns "always making up imaginary scenes with all our masks for faces" does the poet refer to in Poem 16?

3. What does the woman in Poem 9 hate?

4. In Poem 13, the poet writes of Dante discovering what?

5. In Poem 3, the poet writes of fur leaves and cobalt what?

(see the answer key)

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