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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 did the subjects of the sculptor in "Poem 3" of "Pictures of the Gone World" never reach?
(a) Life.
(b) Death.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Truth.

2. In "Poem 2" of "Pictures of the Gone World," where does the rusty spur end up?
(a) The dead grass.
(b) The leaf piles.
(c) The muck.
(d) The ditches.

3. What is the literary allusion in Poem 2?
(a) Walden.
(b) The Grapes of Wrath.
(c) The Iliad.
(d) On the Road.

4. Who is the author waiting to come to the "final darkest tower" in "I Am Waiting"?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Childe Roland.
(c) Alice in Wonderland.
(d) God.

5. In poem 29, the poet writes of what character from The Sun Also Rises?
(a) Robert Cohn.
(b) Jackson Stowe.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Brett Parker.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For whom is the poet waiting to grow up in "I Am Waiting"?

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

4. Where are the women in the paintings in "Poem 5" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

5. What bird is feeding "on its own breast" in Poem 11?

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