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

2. In Poem 17, what kind of pierrots castrate disaster?
(a) Pantomimic.
(b) Elegant.
(c) White-faced.
(d) Candy-striped.

3. What is the heart compared to in Poem 25?
(a) A mandolin.
(b) A harp.
(c) A fish.
(d) A tree.

4. In the fields of "our childhood" of Poem 19, what mixes with rainbows in memory?
(a) Rain.
(b) Ricks.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Hope.

5. Where do the subways stall and wait in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Over the river.
(b) At Coney Island.
(c) Under the river.
(d) Under the bridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Long Street," the poet writes ""Oaklands of the soul /____ of the Imagination."

2. In "Poem 2" of "Pictures of the Gone World," to whom does love come harder?

3. How does the poet describe the sun which "hung on the hills" in "Poem 5" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

4. In "Poem 8" of "Pictures of the Gone World," the author writes that the face could just as easily be hurt by laughter or what?

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

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