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

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

3. What is the repeated refrain in Poem 27?
(a) Il vueno amore.
(b) C'est amore.
(c) Dolce amore.
(d) Dove sta amore.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 7, the poet writes, "What could she say to the fantastic _____

2. In Poem 17, what kind of pierrots castrate disaster?

3. What bird is feeding "on its own breast" in Poem 11?

4. In Poem 3, the poet writes of fur leaves and cobalt what?

5. In Poem 5, the guy who shows up late is a kind of what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Chagall do in Poem 14 of Chapter One?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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