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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 1, the author writes of false windmills and _____ roosters.
(a) Screaming.
(b) Crying.
(c) Demented.
(d) Ancient.

2. In Poem 7, the poet writes, "What could she say to the fantastic _____
(a) Eagle.
(b) Foolybear.
(c) Cardinal.
(d) God.

3. Whose castle stands above the world like a last bastille in Poem 16?
(a) Rousseau's.
(b) Chagall's.
(c) Kafka's.
(d) Chopin's.

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

5. In Poem 10, the poet writes that beauty never dies, but lies among the aborigines of what?
(a) Art.
(b) Truth.
(c) Death.
(d) Honey.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 13, the poet writes of Dante discovering what?

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

3. Where did the Widder Fogliani have whiskers?

4. What is in the bathtubs in Poem 2?

5. What does the woman in Poem 9 hate?

(see the answer key)

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