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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 14, the poet writes, "Don't let that horse eat that ____."
(a) Song.
(b) Violin.
(c) Cloud.
(d) Apple.

2. What does the woman in Poem 9 hate?
(a) Jewelry.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Love.

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

4. In Poem 27, what tolled twice, once for the birth of love and once for the death?
(a) A telephone.
(b) The clock.
(c) A cloche.
(d) A bell.

5. What can never fade into a money-losing nothingness in Poem 10?
(a) Death.
(b) Truth.
(c) Love.
(d) Beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the "gay cows" chanting in Poem 2?

2. What is the literary allusion in Poem 2?

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

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

5. 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?

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