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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 the fields of "our childhood" of Poem 19, what mixes with rainbows in memory?
(a) Rain.
(b) Hope.
(c) Ricks.
(d) Sorrow.

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) Smoke-stenched.
(b) Emmett Kelly.
(c) Flat faced.
(d) Jubilant juggling.

3. In what month does Poem 20 take place, when the poet first falls in love?
(a) July.
(b) September.
(c) November.
(d) October.

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

5. What do the "falcons of the inner eye" do in Poem 11?
(a) Dance and cry.
(b) Sing and cry.
(c) Dive and die.
(d) Scream and die.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what does the poet write he first fell in love in Poem 20?

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

4. What is the repeated refrain in Poem 27?

5. What park is referred to in Poem 8?

(see the answer key)

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