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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. Along with sleight-of-foot tricks, what does the poet perform in Poem 15?
(a) Pirouettes.
(b) Entrechats.
(c) Tumbles.
(d) Leaps.
2. In Poem 11, the poet writes that "the wounded wilderness of _____ is not the same as the wild west."
(a) Death Valley.
(b) Morris Mountain.
(c) Morris Graves.
(d) Sanders Graves.
3. The poet writes in Poem 13 that he would paint a different kind of what?
(a) Tragedy.
(b) Paradiso.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Bellissimo.
4. What is the Widder Fogliani otherwise known as?
(a) Bella Gloria.
(b) Bella Sara.
(c) Bella Lana.
(d) Bella Donna.
5. In Poem 20, what did the leaves cry?
(a) Fall beneath me!
(b) Leave!
(c) Sleep son!
(d) Too soon!
Short Answer Questions
1. 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 _______."
2. In Poem 3, the poet writes, "its America with its ghost towns and empty ________."
3. In Poem 6, what wouldn't sing where the statue was being erected?
4. From where will the carpenter not come down in Poem 5?
5. What kind of two-step does the poet write about in Poem 9?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the metaphor for a poet in Poem 15 of Chapter One?
2. In the eleventh poem of Chapter One, in what way does the author describe the "Wild West"?
3. What is the second poem of Chapter 1 about? What imagery is used?
4. Detail the events which take place in Poem 8, in Golden Gate Park.
5. What is the juxtaposition of setting in Poem 19 of Chapter One? How is memory involved?
6. Describe the Christ figure in Poem 5 of Chapter One.
7. Describe Goya's paintings as described by the author in Poem 1.
8. What happens in Poem 9 of Chapter One? What does the woman say to him in the poem? What is the mood?
9. What is the major theme of Poem 29 of Chapter One?
10. What does the poet write about Beauty in Poem 10 of Chapter One?
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