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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 15, what does a poet climb onto of his own making?
(a) A building.
(b) A mountain.
(c) A high wire.
(d) A castle.

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

3. Whose castle stands above the world like a last bastille in Poem 16?
(a) Chagall's.
(b) Chopin's.
(c) Kafka's.
(d) Rousseau's.

4. What does the poet do with all the old ladies in Poem 18?
(a) Kisses them sleeping.
(b) Wakens their dreams.
(c) Makes them young again.
(d) Rouses their confidence.

5. In Poem 7, the poet writes, "What could she say to the fantastic _____
(a) God.
(b) Foolybear.
(c) Cardinal.
(d) Eagle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the Widder Fogliani otherwise known as?

3. In what month does Poem 20 take place, when the poet first falls in love?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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