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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 bird is feeding "on its own breast" in Poem 11?
(a) Ibis.
(b) Eagle.
(c) Thrush.
(d) Falcon.

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

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

4. What are the "gay cows" chanting in Poem 2?
(a) Argentinean anthems.
(b) Athenian anthems.
(c) Winter songs.
(d) Lullabies.

5. In Poem 15, what stands and waits to perform her own death-defying leap?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Truth.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the literary allusion in Poem 2?

2. In Poem 6, whose statue were they putting up?

3. In what month does Poem 20 take place, when the poet first falls in love?

4. What is the woman carrying in Poem 8?

5. What is the heart compared to in Poem 25?

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