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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. What park is referred to in Poem 8?
(a) St. Lawrence.
(b) Chiminy.
(c) Golden Gate.
(d) St. Francis.

2. Where did the Widder Fogliani have whiskers?
(a) On her chest.
(b) On her heart.
(c) On her chin.
(d) On her soul.

3. The poet writes in Poem 13 that he would paint a different kind of what?
(a) Paradiso.
(b) Tragedy.
(c) Bellissimo.
(d) Beauty.

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

5. In Poem 6, what wouldn't sing where the statue was being erected?
(a) Choirs.
(b) Birds.
(c) Angels.
(d) Girls.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 3, the poet writes, "its America with its ghost towns and empty ________."

2. What kind of clowns "always making up imaginary scenes with all our masks for faces" does the poet refer to in Poem 16?

3. In Poem 17, what kind of pierrots castrate disaster?

4. What does the woman in Poem 9 have that are bad?

5. 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?

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