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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 went mad in Poem 7?
(a) The fairies.
(b) The leaves.
(c) The children.
(d) The birds.

2. Where does the poet write of staggering blind after alleycats in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Under the Brooklyn Bridge.
(b) In the sunsets of Chicago.
(c) In Seattle by the shore.
(d) In the San Francisco fire line.

3. In Poem 13, the poet writes of Dante discovering what?
(a) A nymph.
(b) A mountain.
(c) A commedia.
(d) A tragedy.

4. With what does the poet compare the "reality" of the paintings of "Poem 5" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) His wife.
(b) His dreams.
(c) His memory.
(d) His honesty.

5. The poet writes in "I Am Waiting," that he is waiting for the deepest South to just stop what?
(a) Castrating itself.
(b) Murdering itself.
(c) Terrorizing itself.
(d) Reconstructing itself.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 3, the poet writes, "its America with its ghost towns and empty ________."

2. Who were beguiled by the paintings in "Poem 5" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

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

4. In "Poem 2" of "Pictures of the Gone World," what goes flying?

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

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