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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 bell.
(b) The clock.
(c) A cloche.
(d) A telephone.

2. The poet writes in "Junkman's Obbligato," "Let's go / smelling of _____."
(a) Sterno.
(b) Indigo.
(c) Patchouli.
(d) Petrol.

3. Where does the poet suggest sleeping in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Phone booths.
(b) Caves.
(c) Deserts.
(d) Churches.

4. Whose poetry does the author encounter in "Poem 4" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Rene Char.
(b) Yeats.
(c) Percy Shelley.
(d) Lord Byron.

5. What do the "falcons of the inner eye" do in Poem 11?
(a) Sing and cry.
(b) Scream and die.
(c) Dive and die.
(d) Dance and cry.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was the sculptor when he died in "Poem 3" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

2. In Poem 5, the guy who shows up late is a kind of what?

3. What has its cookies to give out in "Poem 7" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

4. Walking around in museums makes the poet want to do what in "Poem 6" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

5. What stands hitched alone in "Poem 10" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

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