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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, A Coney Island of the Mind.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. In Poem 17, what kind of pierrots castrate disaster?
(a) Pantomimic.
(b) Elegant.
(c) White-faced.
(d) Candy-striped.

5. In poem 29, the poet writes of what character from The Sun Also Rises?
(a) Brett Parker.
(b) Robert Cohn.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Jackson Stowe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the woman in Poem 9 hate?

2. What is the literary allusion in Poem 2?

3. What does the woman in Poem 9 have that are bad?

4. The poet writes in Poem 13 that he would paint a different kind of what?

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

(see the answer key)

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