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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. What is the heart compared to in Poem 25?
(a) A fish.
(b) A harp.
(c) A mandolin.
(d) A tree.

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

3. The poet writes in Poem 13 that he would paint a different kind of what?
(a) Tragedy.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Paradiso.
(d) Bellissimo.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Poem 21, the poet writes that "she" loved to look at flowers and smell fruit. What staggered through her sleep?

4. In Poem 20, what did the leaves cry?

5. In Poem 1, the author writes that in the paintings of Goya we see the people of the world when "they first attained the title of" what?

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