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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What bird is feeding "on its own breast" in Poem 11?
(a) Falcon.
(b) Eagle.
(c) Thrush.
(d) Ibis.
2. What is the literary allusion in Poem 2?
(a) The Grapes of Wrath.
(b) Walden.
(c) On the Road.
(d) The Iliad.
3. In Poem 6, whose statue were they putting up?
(a) St. Peter.
(b) St. Christopher.
(c) St. Louis.
(d) St. Francis.
4. 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) Brilliant adversity.
(b) Suffering humanity.
(c) Solemn silence.
(d) Joyous humanity.
5. The poet writes in Poem 13 that he would paint a different kind of what?
(a) Tragedy.
(b) Bellissimo.
(c) Paradiso.
(d) Beauty.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the repeated refrain in Poem 27?
2. What kind of two-step does the poet write about in Poem 9?
3. In Poem 3, the poet writes of fur leaves and cobalt what?
4. In Poem 27, what tolled twice, once for the birth of love and once for the death?
5. What are the "gay cows" chanting in Poem 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Goya's paintings as described by the author in Poem 1.
2. What is the metaphor for a poet in Poem 15 of Chapter One?
3. Describe the Christ figure in Poem 5 of Chapter One.
4. What is the statue described as in Poem 6 of Chapter One?
5. In Chapter One, where does Poem 20 take place? With what does the poet fall in love?
6. What is the juxtaposition of setting in Poem 19 of Chapter One? How is memory involved?
7. How is life compared to a circus in Poem 17 of Chapter One?
8. What happens in Poem 9 of Chapter One? What does the woman say to him in the poem? What is the mood?
9. In the eleventh poem of Chapter One, in what way does the author describe the "Wild West"?
10. Describe Poem 7 of Chapter One. What literally happens in the poem, and what is the underlying meaning?
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