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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 27, what tolled twice, once for the birth of love and once for the death?
(a) A cloche.
(b) A telephone.
(c) A bell.
(d) The clock.

2. What is the heart compared to in Poem 25?
(a) A harp.
(b) A tree.
(c) A fish.
(d) A mandolin.

3. In Poem 12, what did the painting cry at him?
(a) A beautiful ballad of sorrow.
(b) A terrible bedtime song.
(c) A song of remorse.
(d) A screech of epiphany.

4. In Poem 6, whose statue were they putting up?
(a) St. Louis.
(b) St. Francis.
(c) St. Christopher.
(d) St. Peter.

5. In Poem 24, the poet writes, "We squat upon the beach of love/ among Picasso _____ struck full of sand."
(a) Villages.
(b) Paintings.
(c) Violins.
(d) Mandolins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the literary allusion in Poem 2?

2. In Poem 11, the poet writes that "the wounded wilderness of _____ is not the same as the wild west."

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

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

5. In Poem 20, what did the leaves cry?

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