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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 16, the poet writes, "Yet away around on the far side like the stage door of a circus tent is a wide wide vent in the _______."
(a) Chamber.
(b) Battlements.
(c) Universe.
(d) Prison.

2. In Poem 6, what wouldn't sing where the statue was being erected?
(a) Girls.
(b) Choirs.
(c) Birds.
(d) Angels.

3. The man in Poem 8 is carrying an old beat-up what?
(a) Umbrella.
(b) Shawl.
(c) Flower.
(d) Flute.

4. In Poem 3, the poet writes, "its America with its ghost towns and empty ________."
(a) Ellis islands.
(b) Forests.
(c) Silent plains.
(d) Mount Rushmore.

5. What can never fade into a money-losing nothingness in Poem 10?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Death.
(c) Love.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 24, the poet writes, "We squat upon the beach of love/ among Picasso _____ struck full of sand."

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

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

4. From where will the carpenter not come down in Poem 5?

5. In Poem 15, what does a poet climb onto of his own making?

(see the answer key)

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