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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Poem 21, the poet writes that "she" loved to look at flowers and smell fruit. What staggered through her sleep?
(a) Wolves in tiger garb.
(b) Halfass drunken sailors.
(c) Poets and madmen.
(d) Goats among the sheep.

3. What does the woman in Poem 9 have that are bad?
(a) Hair.
(b) Skin.
(c) Eyes.
(d) Teeth.

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

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

6. In what month does Poem 20 take place, when the poet first falls in love?
(a) November.
(b) October.
(c) July.
(d) September.

7. In Poem 22, what is Johnny's last name?
(a) Perry.
(b) Smith.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Nolan.

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

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

10. In poem 29, the poet writes of what character from The Sun Also Rises?
(a) Jackson Stowe.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Brett Parker.
(d) Robert Cohn.

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

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

13. In Poem 20, what did the leaves cry?
(a) Too soon!
(b) Fall beneath me!
(c) Leave!
(d) Sleep son!

14. In Poem 11, the poet writes that "the wounded wilderness of _____ is not the same as the wild west."
(a) Morris Mountain.
(b) Morris Graves.
(c) Death Valley.
(d) Sanders Graves.

15. What is the Widder Fogliani otherwise known as?
(a) Bella Sara.
(b) Bella Gloria.
(c) Bella Lana.
(d) Bella Donna.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 13, the poet writes of Dante discovering what?

2. In Poem 12, where did he hound the leaded ground?

3. What is the woman carrying in Poem 8?

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

5. What are the "patriotic maidens" wearing in Poem 2?

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