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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is in the bathtubs in Poem 2?
(a) Eagles.
(b) Monsters.
(c) Elephants.
(d) Tigers.
2. What does the poet do with all the old ladies in Poem 18?
(a) Makes them young again.
(b) Kisses them sleeping.
(c) Rouses their confidence.
(d) Wakens their dreams.
3. In Poem 24, the poet writes, "We squat upon the beach of love/ among Picasso _____ struck full of sand."
(a) Paintings.
(b) Violins.
(c) Mandolins.
(d) Villages.
4. In Poem 12, what did the painting cry at him?
(a) A screech of epiphany.
(b) A beautiful ballad of sorrow.
(c) A terrible bedtime song.
(d) A song of remorse.
5. Where did the Widder Fogliani have whiskers?
(a) On her chest.
(b) On her heart.
(c) On her chin.
(d) On her soul.
6. In Poem 15, what stands and waits to perform her own death-defying leap?
(a) Love.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Truth.
7. In Poem 1, the author writes of false windmills and _____ roosters.
(a) Demented.
(b) Ancient.
(c) Screaming.
(d) Crying.
8. What painter kept painting, despite his mother's pleas in Poem 14?
(a) Van Gogh.
(b) Chagall.
(c) Picasso.
(d) Monet.
9. In Poem 3, the poet writes, "its America with its ghost towns and empty ________."
(a) Mount Rushmore.
(b) Ellis islands.
(c) Silent plains.
(d) Forests.
10. Along with sleight-of-foot tricks, what does the poet perform in Poem 15?
(a) Leaps.
(b) Tumbles.
(c) Pirouettes.
(d) Entrechats.
11. In Poem 17, what kind of pierrots castrate disaster?
(a) White-faced.
(b) Pantomimic.
(c) Candy-striped.
(d) Elegant.
12. What is the heart compared to in Poem 25?
(a) A mandolin.
(b) A fish.
(c) A harp.
(d) A tree.
13. What kind of two-step does the poet write about in Poem 9?
(a) Aztec.
(b) Barbarian.
(c) Romanian.
(d) Athenian.
14. The man in Poem 8 is carrying an old beat-up what?
(a) Shawl.
(b) Umbrella.
(c) Flute.
(d) Flower.
15. In Poem 3, the poet writes of fur leaves and cobalt what?
(a) Skies.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Seas.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the literary allusion in Poem 2?
2. In Poem 11, the poet writes that "the wounded wilderness of _____ is not the same as the wild west."
3. In Poem 4, the poet writes of dead sunflowers and live what?
4. What kind of clowns "always making up imaginary scenes with all our masks for faces" does the poet refer to in Poem 16?
5. In Poem 10, what does the poet write he has not lain with all his life?
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