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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 what month does Poem 20 take place, when the poet first falls in love?
(a) October.
(b) September.
(c) July.
(d) November.

2. In Poem 12, what did the painting cry at him?
(a) A screech of epiphany.
(b) A terrible bedtime song.
(c) A beautiful ballad of sorrow.
(d) A song of remorse.

3. What bird is feeding "on its own breast" in Poem 11?
(a) Ibis.
(b) Eagle.
(c) Thrush.
(d) Falcon.

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

5. In Poem 22, what is Johnny's last name?
(a) Johnson.
(b) Perry.
(c) Nolan.
(d) Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 17, what kind of pierrots castrate disaster?

2. In Poem 1, the author writes that in the paintings of Goya we see the people of the world when "they first attained the title of" what?

3. What are the "gay cows" chanting in Poem 2?

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

5. In Poem 21, the poet writes that "she" loved to look at flowers and smell fruit. What staggered through her sleep?

(see the answer key)

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