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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 does the poet write he first fell in love in Poem 20?
(a) The dime store.
(b) The midnight train.
(c) The penny candy store.
(d) The arcade.

2. What bird is feeding "on its own breast" in Poem 11?
(a) Thrush.
(b) Ibis.
(c) Falcon.
(d) Eagle.

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

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

5. In Poem 5, the guy who shows up late is a kind of what?
(a) Highwayman.
(b) Jeweler.
(c) Carpenter.
(d) Hustler.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the "falcons of the inner eye" do in Poem 11?

2. In Poem 13, the poet writes of Dante discovering what?

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

4. The poet writes in Poem 13 that he would paint a different kind of what?

5. What is the repeated refrain in Poem 27?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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