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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. From where will the carpenter not come down in Poem 5?
(a) His tree.
(b) His cross.
(c) His throne.
(d) His mountain.

2. In Poem 5, in what year does the poet write the Dead Sea Scrolls are found?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1947.

3. With what expression does the woman look at the man in Poem 8?
(a) Depression.
(b) Lust.
(c) Joy.
(d) Love.

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

5. In Poem 6, what wouldn't sing where the statue was being erected?
(a) Angels.
(b) Birds.
(c) Girls.
(d) Choirs.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 10, the poet writes that beauty never dies, but lies among the aborigines of what?

2. What is the woman carrying in Poem 8?

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

4. What went mad in Poem 7?

5. What painter kept painting, despite his mother's pleas in Poem 14?

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