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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is in the bathtubs in Poem 2?
(a) Tigers.
(b) Elephants.
(c) Eagles.
(d) Monsters.

5. The man in Poem 8 is carrying an old beat-up what?
(a) Umbrella.
(b) Flute.
(c) Flower.
(d) Shawl.

6. What are the "patriotic maidens" wearing in Poem 2?
(a) Paper poppies.
(b) Paper hats.
(c) Fur stoles.
(d) Rectangle glasses.

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

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

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

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

11. What is the repeated refrain in Poem 27?
(a) Il vueno amore.
(b) Dove sta amore.
(c) Dolce amore.
(d) C'est amore.

12. In Poem 5, the guy who shows up late is a kind of what?
(a) Highwayman.
(b) Carpenter.
(c) Hustler.
(d) Jeweler.

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

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

15. Along with sleight-of-foot tricks, what does the poet perform in Poem 15?
(a) Tumbles.
(b) Entrechats.
(c) Pirouettes.
(d) Leaps.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Poem 3, the poet writes of fur leaves and cobalt what?

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

4. In Poem 20, what did the leaves cry?

5. What painter kept painting, despite his mother's pleas in Poem 14?

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