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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The poet writes in Poem 13 that he would paint a different kind of what?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Tragedy.
(c) Bellissimo.
(d) Paradiso.

2. What kind of clowns "always making up imaginary scenes with all our masks for faces" does the poet refer to in Poem 16?
(a) Jubilant juggling.
(b) Smoke-stenched.
(c) Emmett Kelly.
(d) Flat faced.

3. 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.

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

5. What is the repeated refrain in Poem 27?
(a) Il vueno amore.
(b) C'est amore.
(c) Dove sta amore.
(d) Dolce amore.

6. What kind of two-step does the poet write about in Poem 9?
(a) Romanian.
(b) Barbarian.
(c) Athenian.
(d) Aztec.

7. In the fields of "our childhood" of Poem 19, what mixes with rainbows in memory?
(a) Hope.
(b) Ricks.
(c) Rain.
(d) Sorrow.

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

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

10. What went mad in Poem 7?
(a) The children.
(b) The leaves.
(c) The birds.
(d) The fairies.

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

12. In Poem 4, the poet writes of dead sunflowers and live what?
(a) Monsters.
(b) Subways.
(c) Butterflies.
(d) Telephones.

13. 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?
(a) Joyous humanity.
(b) Suffering humanity.
(c) Solemn silence.
(d) Brilliant adversity.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 27, what tolled twice, once for the birth of love and once for the death?

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. What is the Widder Fogliani otherwise known as?

4. What park is referred to in Poem 8?

5. In Poem 1, the author writes of false windmills and _____ roosters.

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