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

2. In what does the poet write he first fell in love in Poem 20?
(a) The midnight train.
(b) The penny candy store.
(c) The dime store.
(d) The arcade.

3. What does the poet do with all the old ladies in Poem 18?
(a) Rouses their confidence.
(b) Kisses them sleeping.
(c) Wakens their dreams.
(d) Makes them young again.

4. In Poem 16, the poet writes, "Yet away around on the far side like the stage door of a circus tent is a wide wide vent in the _______."
(a) Chamber.
(b) Battlements.
(c) Prison.
(d) Universe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What painter kept painting, despite his mother's pleas in Poem 14?

2. In "Poem 7" of "Pictures of the Gone World," what did the Firemen turn on?

3. In Poem 19, the poet writes, "like every morning with its sharp shadows shadowing a ______."

4. Whom does the poet say he is waiting for them to prove is really an American in "I Am Waiting"?

5. Who is the painter discussed in "Poem 5" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

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