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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the heart compared to in Poem 25?
(a) A fish.
(b) A tree.
(c) A harp.
(d) A mandolin.

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

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

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

8. In Poem 7, the poet writes, "What could she say to the fantastic _____
(a) Foolybear.
(b) Eagle.
(c) Cardinal.
(d) God.

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

10. What is the literary allusion in Poem 2?
(a) Walden.
(b) The Iliad.
(c) The Grapes of Wrath.
(d) On the Road.

11. What park is referred to in Poem 8?
(a) Golden Gate.
(b) St. Francis.
(c) St. Lawrence.
(d) Chiminy.

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

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

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

15. In the fields of "our childhood" of Poem 19, what mixes with rainbows in memory?
(a) Ricks.
(b) Hope.
(c) Rain.
(d) Sorrow.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What bird is feeding "on its own breast" in Poem 11?

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

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

5. In Poem 21, the poet writes that "she" loved to look at flowers and smell fruit. What staggered through her sleep?

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