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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 what does the poet write he first fell in love in Poem 20?
(a) The dime store.
(b) The arcade.
(c) The midnight train.
(d) The penny candy store.

2. What is the Widder Fogliani otherwise known as?
(a) Bella Lana.
(b) Bella Donna.
(c) Bella Gloria.
(d) Bella Sara.

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

4. "By the time they print your picture / in ________ / you will have become a negative anyway" the poet writes in "Junkman's Obbligato."
(a) Times Magazine.
(b) Life Magazine.
(c) New York Magazine.
(d) The paper.

5. In "Junkman's Obbligato," the poet writes, "Empty out your pockets and _____."
(a) Arouse.
(b) Fall asleep.
(c) Disappear.
(d) Awaken.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What stood up in the ending of "Poem 5" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

3. In Poem 22, what is Johnny's last name?

4. In Poem 12, what did the painting cry at him?

5. The author writes in "Poem 3" of "Pictures of the Gone World," "Their stone eyes staring / through ______ years."

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