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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. The poet writes of staggering into what kind of sunsets in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) East River.
(b) Rainy.
(c) West coast.
(d) Snowy.

2. In "The Long Street," the poet writes ""Oaklands of the soul /____ of the Imagination."
(a) Chicagos.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) New Yorks.
(d) Dublins.

3. Where does "Poem 4" of "Pictures of the Gone World" take place?
(a) Paris.
(b) Greece.
(c) New York.
(d) London.

4. How were the couples going into the sad water in "Poem 4" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Laughing.
(b) Nude.
(c) Gently.
(d) Silently.

5. Whose poetry does the author encounter in "Poem 4" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Percy Shelley.
(b) Yeats.
(c) Rene Char.
(d) Lord Byron.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did the poet believe he was, catching crayfish in the Bronx river in "Autobiography"?

2. In Poem 21, the poet writes that "she" loved to look at flowers and smell fruit. What staggered through her sleep?

3. What does the poet say we'll dry our drawers on in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

4. The poet writes in "Junkman's Obbligato," "Let's go / smelling of _____."

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

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