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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 season is it in "Poem 4" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Winter.
(b) Fall.
(c) Summer.
(d) Spring.

2. In "I Am Waiting," the poet writes he is waiting for the rebirth of what?
(a) Truth.
(b) Inconsequence.
(c) Music.
(d) Wonder.

3. The author writes in "Autobiography," "I once started out / to walk around the world / but ended up in ______."
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Venezuela.
(d) Mexico.

4. The author writes in "Poem 3" of "Pictures of the Gone World," "Their stone eyes staring / through ______ years."
(a) Three thousand.
(b) Five thousand.
(c) Three hundred.
(d) One thousand.

5. Whom does the poet say he is waiting for them to prove is really an American in "I Am Waiting"?
(a) Ginsberg.
(b) Himself.
(c) The Pope.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What went mad in Poem 7?

2. What magazine did the poet read as a boy, in "Autobiography"?

3. In poem 29, the poet writes of what character from The Sun Also Rises?

4. What does the poet not see debarked in Marseilles in "Poem 4" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

5. What does the poet do with all the old ladies in Poem 18?

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