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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 27, what tolled twice, once for the birth of love and once for the death?
(a) A bell.
(b) The clock.
(c) A telephone.
(d) A cloche.

2. In Poem 12, what did the painting cry at him?
(a) A song of remorse.
(b) A screech of epiphany.
(c) A beautiful ballad of sorrow.
(d) A terrible bedtime song.

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

4. What is the heart compared to in Poem 25?
(a) A mandolin.
(b) A tree.
(c) A harp.
(d) A fish.

5. What does the woman in Poem 9 have that are bad?
(a) Eyes.
(b) Skin.
(c) Teeth.
(d) Hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the literary allusion in Poem 2?

2. In Poem 21, from the other side of what do the green birds sing?

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

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

5. In Poem 17, what kind of pierrots castrate disaster?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens in Poem 9 of Chapter One? What does the woman say to him in the poem? What is the mood?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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