4. 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) Battlements.
(b) Chamber.
(c) Prison.
(d) Universe.

5. In Poem 18, how does the poet feel of his own voice and the sound of birds?
(a) Enraged.
(b) Jealous.
(c) Overjoyed.
(d) Frightened.

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

7. In poem 2, where does the poet say "we" were sailing through the streets?
(a) Argos.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Seattle.
(d) Demos.

8. In Poem 11, the poet writes that "the wounded wilderness of _____ is not the same as the wild west."
(a) Death Valley.
(b) Morris Mountain.
(c) Morris Graves.
(d) Sanders Graves.

9. In Poem 24, the poet writes, "We squat upon the beach of love/ among Picasso _____ struck full of sand."
(a) Violins.
(b) Paintings.
(c) Mandolins.
(d) Villages.

10. What is the literary allusion in Poem 2?
(a) On the Road.
(b) The Iliad.
(c) The Grapes of Wrath.
(d) Walden.

11. In Poem 21, the poet writes that "she" loved to look at flowers and smell fruit. What staggered through her sleep?
(a) Goats among the sheep.
(b) Halfass drunken sailors.
(c) Wolves in tiger garb.
(d) Poets and madmen.

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

13. In Poem 19, the poet writes, "like every morning with its sharp shadows shadowing a ______."
(a) Night.
(b) Paradise.
(c) Landing.
(d) Horror.

14. In Poem 15, what stands and waits to perform her own death-defying leap?
(a) Love.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Truth.
(d) Poetry.

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