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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Poem 12, where did he hound the leaded ground?
(a) Into the night.
(b) Into the future.
(c) Into oblivion.
(d) Into the distance.

2. In Poem 6, what wouldn't sing where the statue was being erected?
(a) Angels.
(b) Girls.
(c) Choirs.
(d) Birds.

3. In Poem 6, whose statue were they putting up?
(a) St. Peter.
(b) St. Louis.
(c) St. Christopher.
(d) St. Francis.

4. In Poem 3, the poet writes of fur leaves and cobalt what?
(a) Seas.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Skies.

5. In poem 2, where does the poet say "we" were sailing through the streets?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Seattle.
(c) Demos.
(d) Argos.

6. What does the poet do with all the old ladies in Poem 18?
(a) Wakens their dreams.
(b) Kisses them sleeping.
(c) Rouses their confidence.
(d) Makes them young again.

7. In Poem 13, the poet writes of Dante discovering what?
(a) A nymph.
(b) A tragedy.
(c) A commedia.
(d) A mountain.

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

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

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

11. In what does the poet write he first fell in love in Poem 20?
(a) The arcade.
(b) The dime store.
(c) The midnight train.
(d) The penny candy store.

12. In Poem 5, in what year does the poet write the Dead Sea Scrolls are found?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1951.

13. In Poem 10, what does the poet write he has not lain with all his life?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Truth.
(c) Love.
(d) Gentleness.

14. Where did the Widder Fogliani have whiskers?
(a) On her soul.
(b) On her heart.
(c) On her chin.
(d) On her chest.

15. In Poem 10, the poet writes that beauty never dies, but lies among the aborigines of what?
(a) Death.
(b) Art.
(c) Truth.
(d) Honey.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose castle stands above the world like a last bastille in Poem 16?

3. What kind of two-step does the poet write about in Poem 9?

4. What can never fade into a money-losing nothingness in Poem 10?

5. In Poem 27, what tolled twice, once for the birth of love and once for the death?

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