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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 "obbligato" mean?
(a) Obsequious.
(b) Obligatory.
(c) Ordinary.
(d) Opulent.

2. The subjects of "Poem 6" of "Pictures of the Gone World" look as if they never went where?
(a) To the bath room.
(b) To the church.
(c) To funerals.
(d) To museums.

3. In Poem 21, from the other side of what do the green birds sing?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Truth.
(c) Memory.
(d) Silence.

4. In Poem 6, what wouldn't sing where the statue was being erected?
(a) Birds.
(b) Choirs.
(c) Angels.
(d) Girls.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Poem 9" of "Pictures of the Gone World," what does the poet say are never so real as "oldstyle romances"?

2. The poets writes in "Junkman's Obbligato," "Let us not wait for ______ / to carry us triumphant / into the interior waving / at the natives."

3. What does the poet write he saw again "in a summer of sauterelles" in "Poem 4" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

4. In "Autobiography," where was the poet when Rome was built?

5. In "I Am Waiting," the poet says he is waiting for the Age of what to drop dead?

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