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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Joyous humanity.
(d) Suffering humanity.

2. In Poem 27, what tolled twice, once for the birth of love and once for the death?
(a) A bell.
(b) A telephone.
(c) A cloche.
(d) The clock.

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

4. In Poem 13, the poet writes of Dante discovering what?
(a) A mountain.
(b) A commedia.
(c) A tragedy.
(d) A nymph.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 6, what wouldn't sing where the statue was being erected?

2. In Poem 15, what stands and waits to perform her own death-defying leap?

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

4. What does the woman in Poem 9 hate?

5. From where will the carpenter not come down in Poem 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the statue described as in Poem 6 of Chapter One?

2. What is Poem 4 about in Chapter One? What imagery is used?

3. What is the major theme of Poem 29 of Chapter One?

4. Describe Poem 7 of Chapter One. What literally happens in the poem, and what is the underlying meaning?

5. What is the juxtaposition of setting in Poem 19 of Chapter One? How is memory involved?

6. What is the second poem of Chapter 1 about? What imagery is used?

7. What events take place in Poem 18 of Chapter One? How does the poet describe "the dreamer"?

8. In the eleventh poem of Chapter One, in what way does the author describe the "Wild West"?

9. Describe the woman in Poem 21 of Chapter One.

10. What does the poet write about Beauty in Poem 10 of Chapter One?

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