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

2. In Poem 3, the poet writes, "its America with its ghost towns and empty ________."
(a) Ellis islands.
(b) Forests.
(c) Silent plains.
(d) Mount Rushmore.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What park is referred to in Poem 8?

2. The poet writes in Poem 13 that he would paint a different kind of what?

3. In Poem 12, what did the painting cry at him?

4. From where will the carpenter not come down in Poem 5?

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

(see the answer key)

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