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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 stands and waits to perform her own death-defying leap?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Love.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Truth.

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

3. In Poem 21, the poet writes that "she" loved to look at flowers and smell fruit. What staggered through her sleep?
(a) Poets and madmen.
(b) Goats among the sheep.
(c) Halfass drunken sailors.
(d) Wolves in tiger garb.

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

5. What park is referred to in Poem 8?
(a) Chiminy.
(b) St. Francis.
(c) Golden Gate.
(d) St. Lawrence.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of two-step does the poet write about in Poem 9?

3. What is the heart compared to in Poem 25?

4. In Poem 3, the poet writes of fur leaves and cobalt what?

5. The man in Poem 8 is carrying an old beat-up what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the Christ figure in Poem 5 of Chapter One.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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