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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 what month does Poem 20 take place, when the poet first falls in love?
(a) November.
(b) July.
(c) September.
(d) October.

2. In Poem 6, what wouldn't sing where the statue was being erected?
(a) Choirs.
(b) Girls.
(c) Angels.
(d) Birds.

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

4. In Poem 12, what did the painting cry at him?
(a) A song of remorse.
(b) A screech of epiphany.
(c) A terrible bedtime song.
(d) A beautiful ballad of sorrow.

5. What do the "falcons of the inner eye" do in Poem 11?
(a) Dance and cry.
(b) Scream and die.
(c) Sing and cry.
(d) Dive and die.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 18, how does the poet feel of his own voice and the sound of birds?

2. What is in the bathtubs in Poem 2?

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

4. In what does the poet write he first fell in love in Poem 20?

5. In Poem 4, the poet writes of dead sunflowers and live what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Detail the events which take place in Poem 8, in Golden Gate Park.

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

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

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

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

6. What happens in Poem 9 of Chapter One? What does the woman say to him in the poem? What is the mood?

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

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

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

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

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