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

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

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

4. In Poem 4, the poet writes of dead sunflowers and live what?
(a) Subways.
(b) Butterflies.
(c) Telephones.
(d) Monsters.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What bird is feeding "on its own breast" in Poem 11?

2. In Poem 10, the poet writes that beauty never dies, but lies among the aborigines of what?

3. In Poem 5, in what year does the poet write the Dead Sea Scrolls are found?

4. In Poem 22, what is Johnny's last name?

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

(see the answer key)

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