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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 29, the poet writes of what character from The Sun Also Rises?
(a) Brett Parker.
(b) Jackson Stowe.
(c) Robert Cohn.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

2. In Poem 12, where did he hound the leaded ground?
(a) Into the future.
(b) Into the distance.
(c) Into the night.
(d) Into oblivion.

3. What kind of clowns "always making up imaginary scenes with all our masks for faces" does the poet refer to in Poem 16?
(a) Jubilant juggling.
(b) Emmett Kelly.
(c) Smoke-stenched.
(d) Flat faced.

4. In Poem 22, what is Johnny's last name?
(a) Johnson.
(b) Nolan.
(c) Smith.
(d) Perry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 10, the poet writes that beauty never dies, but lies among the aborigines of what?

2. In Poem 10, what does the poet write he has not lain with all his life?

3. Whose castle stands above the world like a last bastille in Poem 16?

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

5. What does the poet do with all the old ladies in Poem 18?

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