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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 5, the guy who shows up late is a kind of what?
(a) Highwayman.
(b) Hustler.
(c) Carpenter.
(d) Jeweler.

2. What is in the bathtubs in Poem 2?
(a) Eagles.
(b) Tigers.
(c) Elephants.
(d) Monsters.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 21, the poet writes that "she" loved to look at flowers and smell fruit. What staggered through her sleep?

2. 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?

3. In Poem 21, from the other side of what do the green birds sing?

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

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

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