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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. What is the woman carrying in Poem 8?
(a) A flute.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Grapes.
(d) A baby.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Along with sleight-of-foot tricks, what does the poet perform in Poem 15?

3. In Poem 1, the author writes of false windmills and _____ roosters.

4. In Poem 5, in what year does the poet write the Dead Sea Scrolls are found?

5. In the fields of "our childhood" of Poem 19, what mixes with rainbows in memory?

(see the answer key)

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