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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. From where will the carpenter not come down in Poem 5?
(a) His tree.
(b) His cross.
(c) His throne.
(d) His mountain.

9. What can never fade into a money-losing nothingness in Poem 10?
(a) Truth.
(b) Love.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Death.

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

11. What painter kept painting, despite his mother's pleas in Poem 14?
(a) Chagall.
(b) Monet.
(c) Van Gogh.
(d) Picasso.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 16, the poet writes, "Yet away around on the far side like the stage door of a circus tent is a wide wide vent in the _______."

2. The poet writes in Poem 13 that he would paint a different kind of what?

3. In Poem 5, the guy who shows up late is a kind of what?

4. In Poem 19, the poet writes, "like every morning with its sharp shadows shadowing a ______."

5. What does the woman in Poem 9 have that are bad?

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