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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 Poem 27, what tolled twice, once for the birth of love and once for the death?
(a) A telephone.
(b) A bell.
(c) A cloche.
(d) The clock.

2. How many kids were there altogether in "Poem 7" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Three.
(d) Ten.

3. What does the poet speak of leaving behind on lampposts in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Neckties.
(b) Watches.
(c) Shirts.
(d) Boots.

4. In "The Long Street," it is the street of what?
(a) The universe.
(b) The city.
(c) The world.
(d) The women.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose castle stands above the world like a last bastille in Poem 16?

2. In Poem 12, where did he hound the leaded ground?

3. In "Poem 3" of "Pictures of the Gone World," the author writes, "uttering all / the sculptor's _____ / in visible syllables."

4. In "Poem 2" of "Pictures of the Gone World," the author writes, "the steamengine driver don't recognize them new _____ horns."

5. The poet writes of staggering into what kind of sunsets in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

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