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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Widder Fogliani have whiskers?

2. In Poem 16, the poet writes, "Yet away around on the far side like the stage door of a circus tent is a wide wide vent in the _______."

3. The man in Poem 8 is carrying an old beat-up what?

4. In Poem 15, what does a poet climb onto of his own making?

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

(see the answer key)

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