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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 10, what does the poet write he has not lain with all his life?

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

3. What is in the bathtubs in Poem 2?

4. In Poem 5, the guy who shows up late is a kind of what?

5. Where did the Widder Fogliani have whiskers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the animal imagery prominent in Poem 11 of Chapter One. In this poem, the author writes, "The wounded wilderness of Morris Graves / is not the same wild west / the white man found." How does he go one to describe it?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the poems of Chapter 2 in comparison to the poems of the rest of the collection. How are these different in style? What are the common themes?

Essay Topic 3

What are the major themes of the poem "I Am Waiting"? How does the author express the time in which he exists in this poem? How does Ferlinghetti illuminate his political beliefs through the use of symbolism?

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