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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 is the description of the time in "Poem 3" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Hintertime.
(b) Yore.
(c) Wintertime.
(d) Days before.

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

3. Who does the poet refer to in the lines, "Take up the full beard/of walking anarchy"?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) Edgar Allan Poe.
(d) James Joyce.

4. In "Autobiography," the author writes, "I landed in Normandy/in a rowboat that _______."
(a) Floated ashore.
(b) Turned over.
(c) Fell to shreds.
(d) Washed away in the waves.

5. How many kids were there altogether in "Poem 7" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Ten.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Long Street," the poet writes ""Oaklands of the soul /____ of the Imagination."

2. What can never fade into a money-losing nothingness in Poem 10?

3. In Poem 5, in what year does the poet write the Dead Sea Scrolls are found?

4. What is the woman hanging out to dry in "Poem 1" of "Pictures from the Gone World"?

5. What painter kept painting, despite his mother's pleas in Poem 14?

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