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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 does the poet not see debarked in Marseilles in "Poem 4" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Lovers.
(b) Spirits.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Angels.

2. What color is the woman's hair in "Poem 1" of "Pictures from the Gone World"?
(a) Black.
(b) Gold.
(c) Auburn.
(d) Red.

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

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

5. In "Poem 5" of "Pictures of the Gone World," the poet writes, "I heard the day falling / like the ____ that fell / almost to land."
(a) Gulls.
(b) Eagles.
(c) Leaves.
(d) Raindrops.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does golf go on in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

2. The poet writes in "I Am Waiting," that he is waiting for the deepest South to just stop what?

3. "By the time they print your picture / in ________ / you will have become a negative anyway" the poet writes in "Junkman's Obbligato."

4. What is in the bathtubs in Poem 2?

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

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