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

2. In what way does the poet repeatedly change a line from the song "America" in ""Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) My country lies of thee.
(b) Oh say can you sleep.
(c) My country tears of thee.
(d) The stars shining black.

3. The author writes in "Poem 3" of "Pictures of the Gone World," "Their stone eyes staring / through ______ years."
(a) One thousand.
(b) Three thousand.
(c) Three hundred.
(d) Five thousand.

4. The poet writes he's selling everything and giving the rest to what in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Good Will Industries.
(b) The shoremen on leave.
(c) The ragtag crew of nonpatriots.
(d) Homeless men he passes.

5. In "Poem 9" of "Pictures of the Gone World," what does the poet say are never so real as "oldstyle romances"?
(a) Forgotten lovers.
(b) Lilting laughter.
(c) Funny fantasies.
(d) New loves.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 6, whose statue were they putting up?

2. What park is referred to in Poem 8?

3. How does the poet write of knowing whores in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

4. What magazine did the poet read as a boy, in "Autobiography"?

5. What streams from the lovers in "Poem 2" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

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