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

2. In Poem 3, the poet writes, "its America with its ghost towns and empty ________."
(a) Mount Rushmore.
(b) Ellis islands.
(c) Forests.
(d) Silent plains.

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

4. 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?
(a) Joyous humanity.
(b) Solemn silence.
(c) Brilliant adversity.
(d) Suffering humanity.

5. In Poem 27, what tolled twice, once for the birth of love and once for the death?
(a) The clock.
(b) A cloche.
(c) A telephone.
(d) A bell.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In what month does Poem 20 take place, when the poet first falls in love?

4. What does the poet do with all the old ladies in Poem 18?

5. In Poem 6, whose statue were they putting up?

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