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

2. In Poem 18, how does the poet feel of his own voice and the sound of birds?
(a) Frightened.
(b) Overjoyed.
(c) Enraged.
(d) Jealous.

3. What kind of clowns "always making up imaginary scenes with all our masks for faces" does the poet refer to in Poem 16?
(a) Emmett Kelly.
(b) Smoke-stenched.
(c) Flat faced.
(d) Jubilant juggling.

4. In Poem 5, the guy who shows up late is a kind of what?
(a) Carpenter.
(b) Hustler.
(c) Highwayman.
(d) Jeweler.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what does the poet write he first fell in love in Poem 20?

2. In Poem 20, what did the leaves cry?

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

4. What went mad in Poem 7?

5. In Poem 6, what wouldn't sing where the statue was being erected?

(see the answer key)

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