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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Poem 3, the poet writes of fur leaves and cobalt what?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Seas.
(d) Skies.

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

4. In Poem 18, how does the poet feel of his own voice and the sound of birds?
(a) Enraged.
(b) Frightened.
(c) Jealous.
(d) Overjoyed.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the woman carrying in Poem 8?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Grapes.
(c) A baby.
(d) A flute.

11. Whose castle stands above the world like a last bastille in Poem 16?
(a) Kafka's.
(b) Chagall's.
(c) Chopin's.
(d) Rousseau's.

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

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

14. 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) Halfass drunken sailors.
(c) Wolves in tiger garb.
(d) Poets and madmen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the woman in Poem 9 hate?

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

3. In the fields of "our childhood" of Poem 19, what mixes with rainbows in memory?

4. With what expression does the woman look at the man in Poem 8?

5. What went mad in Poem 7?

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