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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 15, what does a poet climb onto of his own making?
(a) A building.
(b) A castle.
(c) A high wire.
(d) A mountain.

2. In what does the poet write he first fell in love in Poem 20?
(a) The arcade.
(b) The dime store.
(c) The midnight train.
(d) The penny candy store.

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

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

5. In Poem 15, what stands and waits to perform her own death-defying leap?
(a) Truth.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Love.
(d) Poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 4, the poet writes of dead sunflowers and live what?

2. In Poem 21, the poet writes that "she" loved to look at flowers and smell fruit. What staggered through her sleep?

3. In Poem 19, the poet writes, "like every morning with its sharp shadows shadowing a ______."

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?

5. In Poem 10, what does the poet write he has not lain with all his life?

(see the answer key)

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