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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. What is the Widder Fogliani otherwise known as?
(a) Bella Sara.
(b) Bella Gloria.
(c) Bella Lana.
(d) Bella Donna.

2. What painter kept painting, despite his mother's pleas in Poem 14?
(a) Picasso.
(b) Van Gogh.
(c) Monet.
(d) Chagall.

3. What is in the bathtubs in Poem 2?
(a) Eagles.
(b) Monsters.
(c) Elephants.
(d) Tigers.

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

5. The poet writes in Poem 13 that he would paint a different kind of what?
(a) Paradiso.
(b) Bellissimo.
(c) Tragedy.
(d) Beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 12, where did he hound the leaded ground?

2. What is the woman carrying in Poem 8?

3. In Poem 6, whose statue were they putting up?

4. In Poem 15, what stands and waits to perform her own death-defying leap?

5. In Poem 5, in what year does the poet write the Dead Sea Scrolls are found?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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