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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 hate?
(a) Love.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Jewelry.

2. What kind of clowns "always making up imaginary scenes with all our masks for faces" does the poet refer to in Poem 16?
(a) Flat faced.
(b) Jubilant juggling.
(c) Smoke-stenched.
(d) Emmett Kelly.

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

4. What is the repeated refrain in Poem 27?
(a) Dove sta amore.
(b) Il vueno amore.
(c) Dolce amore.
(d) C'est amore.

5. In Poem 19, the poet writes, "like every morning with its sharp shadows shadowing a ______."
(a) Paradise.
(b) Horror.
(c) Landing.
(d) Night.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the "gay cows" chanting in Poem 2?

2. In Poem 12, what did the painting cry at him?

3. What bird is feeding "on its own breast" in Poem 11?

4. In Poem 16, the poet writes, "Yet away around on the far side like the stage door of a circus tent is a wide wide vent in the _______."

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

(see the answer key)

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