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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 stands and waits to perform her own death-defying leap?
(a) Love.
(b) Truth.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Poetry.

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

3. In Poem 18, how does the poet feel of his own voice and the sound of birds?
(a) Frightened.
(b) Jealous.
(c) Overjoyed.
(d) Enraged.

4. What is the literary allusion in Poem 2?
(a) The Iliad.
(b) The Grapes of Wrath.
(c) Walden.
(d) On the Road.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the heart compared to in Poem 25?

2. In Poem 12, where did he hound the leaded ground?

3. 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?

4. The poet writes in Poem 13 that he would paint a different kind of what?

5. What painter kept painting, despite his mother's pleas in Poem 14?

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