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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of two-step does the poet write about in Poem 9?
(a) Barbarian.
(b) Athenian.
(c) Aztec.
(d) Romanian.

3. In Poem 1, the author writes that in the paintings of Goya we see the people of the world when "they first attained the title of" what?
(a) Solemn silence.
(b) Brilliant adversity.
(c) Suffering humanity.
(d) Joyous humanity.

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

5. In Poem 3, the poet writes, "its America with its ghost towns and empty ________."
(a) Forests.
(b) Ellis islands.
(c) Silent plains.
(d) Mount Rushmore.

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

7. 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.

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

9. In Poem 1, the author writes of false windmills and _____ roosters.
(a) Screaming.
(b) Crying.
(c) Demented.
(d) Ancient.

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

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

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

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

14. In Poem 24, the poet writes, "We squat upon the beach of love/ among Picasso _____ struck full of sand."
(a) Villages.
(b) Paintings.
(c) Violins.
(d) Mandolins.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 10, the poet writes that beauty never dies, but lies among the aborigines of what?

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

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

4. What can never fade into a money-losing nothingness in Poem 10?

5. 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 _______."

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