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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. What stood up in the ending of "Poem 5" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Night's trees.
(b) The lovers.
(c) The sun.
(d) The moon.

2. In Poem 17, what kind of pierrots castrate disaster?
(a) Candy-striped.
(b) White-faced.
(c) Pantomimic.
(d) Elegant.

3. In "The Long Street," the poet writes ""Oaklands of the soul /____ of the Imagination."
(a) New Orleans.
(b) New Yorks.
(c) Chicagos.
(d) Dublins.

4. What park is referred to in Poem 8?
(a) St. Lawrence.
(b) St. Francis.
(c) Golden Gate.
(d) Chiminy.

5. In "Autobiography," who has the poet heard "strained through a sheet"?
(a) Bach.
(b) Picasso.
(c) Chopin.
(d) Debussy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Junkman's Obbligato," what has not yet toppled from his horse?

2. What does the woman in Poem 9 have that are bad?

3. What does the poet say we'll dry our drawers on in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

4. In Poem 10, the poet writes that beauty never dies, but lies among the aborigines of what?

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

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