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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. With what expression does the woman look at the man in Poem 8?
(a) Love.
(b) Depression.
(c) Joy.
(d) Lust.

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

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

4. In Poem 10, what does the poet write he has not lain with all his life?
(a) Gentleness.
(b) Love.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Truth.

5. In Poem 21, the poet writes that "she" loved to look at flowers and smell fruit. What staggered through her sleep?
(a) Goats among the sheep.
(b) Poets and madmen.
(c) Wolves in tiger garb.
(d) Halfass drunken sailors.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 3, the poet writes of fur leaves and cobalt what?

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

3. Where did the Widder Fogliani have whiskers?

4. What bird is feeding "on its own breast" in Poem 11?

5. In Poem 20, what did the leaves cry?

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