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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 tree.
(c) A harp.
(d) A mandolin.

2. What is the literary allusion in Poem 2?
(a) The Iliad.
(b) On the Road.
(c) Walden.
(d) The Grapes of Wrath.

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

4. In what month does Poem 20 take place, when the poet first falls in love?
(a) July.
(b) October.
(c) September.
(d) November.

5. In Poem 3, the poet writes of fur leaves and cobalt what?
(a) Seas.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Skies.
(d) Flowers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the fields of "our childhood" of Poem 19, what mixes with rainbows in memory?

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

4. In Poem 11, the poet writes that "the wounded wilderness of _____ is not the same as the wild west."

5. Where did the Widder Fogliani have whiskers?

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