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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. What does the woman in Poem 9 hate?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Love.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Jewelry.

2. In Poem 5, in what year does the poet write the Dead Sea Scrolls are found?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1951.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Widder Fogliani otherwise known as?

2. In Poem 15, what does a poet climb onto of his own making?

3. What are the "gay cows" chanting in Poem 2?

4. In poem 29, the poet writes of what character from The Sun Also Rises?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter One, where does Poem 20 take place? With what does the poet fall in love?

3. Poem 3 of Chapter One describes other visions of America. What are they?

4. How is life compared to a circus in Poem 17 of Chapter One?

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

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

7. What is the Paradiso in Poem 13 of Chapter One?

8. Describe Goya's paintings as described by the author in Poem 1.

9. Describe the Christ figure in Poem 5 of Chapter One.

10. What is the metaphor for a poet in Poem 15 of Chapter One?

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