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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 11, the poet writes that "the wounded wilderness of _____ is not the same as the wild west."
(a) Sanders Graves.
(b) Morris Graves.
(c) Morris Mountain.
(d) Death Valley.

2. In Poem 13, the poet writes of Dante discovering what?
(a) A tragedy.
(b) A commedia.
(c) A nymph.
(d) A mountain.

3. In Poem 10, the poet writes that beauty never dies, but lies among the aborigines of what?
(a) Art.
(b) Truth.
(c) Death.
(d) Honey.

4. What does the poet do with all the old ladies in Poem 18?
(a) Makes them young again.
(b) Rouses their confidence.
(c) Kisses them sleeping.
(d) Wakens their dreams.

5. In Poem 12, what did the painting cry at him?
(a) A song of remorse.
(b) A terrible bedtime song.
(c) A screech of epiphany.
(d) A beautiful ballad of sorrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the "falcons of the inner eye" do in Poem 11?

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

3. In Poem 24, the poet writes, "We squat upon the beach of love/ among Picasso _____ struck full of sand."

4. What is the heart compared to in Poem 25?

5. What is the repeated refrain in Poem 27?

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