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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 kind of two-step does the poet write about in Poem 9?
(a) Athenian.
(b) Romanian.
(c) Aztec.
(d) Barbarian.

2. 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) Suffering humanity.
(b) Solemn silence.
(c) Joyous humanity.
(d) Brilliant adversity.

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

4. In Poem 21, from the other side of what do the green birds sing?
(a) Truth.
(b) Memory.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Silence.

5. What can never fade into a money-losing nothingness in Poem 10?
(a) Death.
(b) Love.
(c) Truth.
(d) Beauty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What went mad in Poem 7?

3. In Poem 15, what does a poet climb onto of his own making?

4. From where will the carpenter not come down in Poem 5?

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

(see the answer key)

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