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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) Depression.
(b) Joy.
(c) Lust.
(d) Love.

2. In Poem 3, the poet writes of fur leaves and cobalt what?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Skies.
(d) Seas.

3. In Poem 21, from the other side of what do the green birds sing?
(a) Truth.
(b) Silence.
(c) Memory.
(d) Beauty.

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

5. In poem 2, where does the poet say "we" were sailing through the streets?
(a) Demos.
(b) Seattle.
(c) Argos.
(d) Atlanta.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 7, the poet writes, "What could she say to the fantastic _____

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 22, what is Johnny's last name?

4. In poem 29, the poet writes of what character from The Sun Also Rises?

5. What painter kept painting, despite his mother's pleas in Poem 14?

(see the answer key)

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