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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 is the poet waiting to just stop rolling along past the country club in "I Am Waiting"?
(a) Old Man River.
(b) The Silent Ship.
(c) The Ship of Fools.
(d) The Jesus caravan.

2. The poet writes in "I Am Waiting" that he is waiting for God to look to see the Ode to the Confederate Dead as a real what?
(a) Irony.
(b) Joy.
(c) Tragedy.
(d) Farce.

3. In Poem 11, the poet writes that "the wounded wilderness of _____ is not the same as the wild west."
(a) Death Valley.
(b) Morris Graves.
(c) Sanders Graves.
(d) Morris Mountain.

4. What will the people miss, having ridden the rails too long in "Poem 2" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) The bells.
(b) The turn.
(c) The song.
(d) The whistle.

5. What is the woman carrying in Poem 8?
(a) Flowers.
(b) A flute.
(c) A baby.
(d) Grapes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The poet writes in "I Am Waiting," "I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for" what?

2. In what month does Poem 20 take place, when the poet first falls in love?

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

4. What kind of two-step does the poet write about in Poem 9?

5. Who does the poet accuse of elitism in "Poem 6" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

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