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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) Subways.
(b) Telephones.
(c) Monsters.
(d) Butterflies.

2. What are the "gay cows" chanting in Poem 2?
(a) Winter songs.
(b) Athenian anthems.
(c) Lullabies.
(d) Argentinean anthems.

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

4. In Poem 16, the poet writes, "Yet away around on the far side like the stage door of a circus tent is a wide wide vent in the _______."
(a) Chamber.
(b) Battlements.
(c) Universe.
(d) Prison.

5. With what expression does the woman look at the man in Poem 8?
(a) Joy.
(b) Love.
(c) Depression.
(d) Lust.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the poet do with all the old ladies in Poem 18?

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

3. What painter kept painting, despite his mother's pleas in Poem 14?

4. In Poem 12, what did the painting cry at him?

5. What is in the bathtubs in Poem 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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