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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Poems from Pictures of the Gone World (1955).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Poem 9" of "Pictures of the Gone World," what does the poet say are never so real as "oldstyle romances"?
(a) Lilting laughter.
(b) Funny fantasies.
(c) Forgotten lovers.
(d) New loves.

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

3. What does the woman say we do differently at night in "Poem 8" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Speak.
(b) Wonder.
(c) Dream.
(d) Think.

4. What does the poet speak of leaving behind on lampposts in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Shirts.
(b) Boots.
(c) Watches.
(d) Neckties.

5. In "Poem 6" of "Pictures of the Gone World," the poet writes that "They say the Spiritual is best conceived in _____ terms."
(a) Articulate.
(b) Surreal.
(c) Literal.
(d) Abstract.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author consider the poems in Chapter 2 to be?

2. The poet writes in "Junkman's Obbligato," "Let's go / smelling of _____."

3. The poets writes in "Junkman's Obbligato," "Let us not wait for ______ / to carry us triumphant / into the interior waving / at the natives."

4. In "Meet Miss Subways," what is the year?

5. The author writes of Rimbaud's "nightmare and" what in "Poem 13" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

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