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

2. What is in the bathtubs in Poem 2?
(a) Monsters.
(b) Tigers.
(c) Elephants.
(d) Eagles.

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

4. In Poem 12, where did he hound the leaded ground?
(a) Into the night.
(b) Into the distance.
(c) Into the future.
(d) Into oblivion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 3, the poet writes of fur leaves and cobalt what?

2. What park is referred to in Poem 8?

3. In Poem 3, the poet writes, "its America with its ghost towns and empty ________."

4. In Poem 15, what stands and waits to perform her own death-defying leap?

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

(see the answer key)

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