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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 15, what does a poet climb onto of his own making?
(a) A castle.
(b) A mountain.
(c) A building.
(d) A high wire.

2. What is the literary allusion in Poem 2?
(a) The Grapes of Wrath.
(b) On the Road.
(c) Walden.
(d) The Iliad.

3. What are the "patriotic maidens" wearing in Poem 2?
(a) Paper hats.
(b) Paper poppies.
(c) Rectangle glasses.
(d) Fur stoles.

4. What kind of clowns "always making up imaginary scenes with all our masks for faces" does the poet refer to in Poem 16?
(a) Smoke-stenched.
(b) Flat faced.
(c) Jubilant juggling.
(d) Emmett Kelly.

5. What can never fade into a money-losing nothingness in Poem 10?
(a) Love.
(b) Truth.
(c) Death.
(d) Beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 1, the author writes of false windmills and _____ roosters.

2. Where did the Widder Fogliani have whiskers?

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

4. In Poem 27, what tolled twice, once for the birth of love and once for the death?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is the statue described as in Poem 6 of Chapter One?

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

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

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