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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 kind of two-step does the poet write about in Poem 9?
(a) Athenian.
(b) Barbarian.
(c) Aztec.
(d) Romanian.

2. In the fields of "our childhood" of Poem 19, what mixes with rainbows in memory?
(a) Rain.
(b) Hope.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Ricks.

3. In Poem 24, the poet writes, "We squat upon the beach of love/ among Picasso _____ struck full of sand."
(a) Paintings.
(b) Villages.
(c) Mandolins.
(d) Violins.

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

5. In Poem 17, what kind of pierrots castrate disaster?
(a) Pantomimic.
(b) Candy-striped.
(c) White-faced.
(d) Elegant.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 18, how does the poet feel of his own voice and the sound of birds?

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

4. In Poem 5, the guy who shows up late is a kind of what?

5. What is the repeated refrain in Poem 27?

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