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

2. Where did the Widder Fogliani have whiskers?
(a) On her soul.
(b) On her heart.
(c) On her chin.
(d) On her chest.

3. In Poem 21, from the other side of what do the green birds sing?
(a) Memory.
(b) Truth.
(c) Silence.
(d) Beauty.

4. In Poem 12, where did he hound the leaded ground?
(a) Into the night.
(b) Into oblivion.
(c) Into the future.
(d) Into the distance.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 4, the poet writes of dead sunflowers and live what?

2. 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 _______."

3. In Poem 11, the poet writes that "the wounded wilderness of _____ is not the same as the wild west."

4. What kind of clowns "always making up imaginary scenes with all our masks for faces" does the poet refer to in Poem 16?

5. In what does the poet write he first fell in love in Poem 20?

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