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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Poem 12, what did the painting cry at him?
(a) A terrible bedtime song.
(b) A song of remorse.
(c) A beautiful ballad of sorrow.
(d) A screech of epiphany.

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

3. With what expression does the woman look at the man in Poem 8?
(a) Lust.
(b) Love.
(c) Depression.
(d) Joy.

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

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

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

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

8. What do the "falcons of the inner eye" do in Poem 11?
(a) Sing and cry.
(b) Scream and die.
(c) Dive and die.
(d) Dance and cry.

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

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

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

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

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

14. In Poem 19, the poet writes, "like every morning with its sharp shadows shadowing a ______."
(a) Horror.
(b) Night.
(c) Paradise.
(d) Landing.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the woman carrying in Poem 8?

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

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

5. In Poem 17, what kind of pierrots castrate disaster?

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