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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, what does the poet write he has not lain with all his life?
(a) Gentleness.
(b) Love.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Truth.

2. In Poem 17, what kind of pierrots castrate disaster?
(a) Pantomimic.
(b) Candy-striped.
(c) Elegant.
(d) White-faced.

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. The man in Poem 8 is carrying an old beat-up what?
(a) Flute.
(b) Flower.
(c) Umbrella.
(d) Shawl.

5. Along with sleight-of-foot tricks, what does the poet perform in Poem 15?
(a) Leaps.
(b) Tumbles.
(c) Entrechats.
(d) Pirouettes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the "falcons of the inner eye" do in Poem 11?

3. What kind of two-step does the poet write about in Poem 9?

4. What is the literary allusion in Poem 2?

5. What can never fade into a money-losing nothingness in Poem 10?

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