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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. Where did the Widder Fogliani have whiskers?
(a) On her chest.
(b) On her heart.
(c) On her chin.
(d) On her soul.

2. 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) Universe.
(d) Chamber.

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

4. What is the repeated refrain in Poem 27?
(a) Dolce amore.
(b) Dove sta amore.
(c) Il vueno amore.
(d) C'est amore.

5. In Poem 21, the poet writes that "she" loved to look at flowers and smell fruit. What staggered through her sleep?
(a) Halfass drunken sailors.
(b) Goats among the sheep.
(c) Poets and madmen.
(d) Wolves in tiger garb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bird is feeding "on its own breast" in Poem 11?

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

3. In Poem 21, from the other side of what do the green birds sing?

4. In Poem 7, the poet writes, "What could she say to the fantastic _____

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

(see the answer key)

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