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

2. In "Autobiography," the author writes, "I landed in Normandy/in a rowboat that _______."
(a) Turned over.
(b) Floated ashore.
(c) Fell to shreds.
(d) Washed away in the waves.

3. In "Poem 6" of "Pictures of the Gone World," the poet writes, "_____ is not the secret of a few."
(a) Life.
(b) Truth.
(c) Joy.
(d) Beauty.

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

5. For whom is the poet waiting to act in "I Am Waiting"?
(a) Jesus.
(b) The man.
(c) Ike.
(d) The woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Poem 5" of "Pictures of the Gone World," the poet writes, "I heard the day falling / like the ____ that fell / almost to land."

2. In Poem 6, what wouldn't sing where the statue was being erected?

3. What did the subjects of the sculptor in "Poem 3" of "Pictures of the Gone World" never reach?

4. In Chapter 2, the author writes that these poems were conceived specifically to be accompanied by what?

5. In "I Am Waiting," the poet says he is waiting for the Age of what to drop dead?

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