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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. The author writes in "Autobiography," "I once started out / to walk around the world / but ended up in ______."
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Venezuela.

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

3. The benches are filled with what kind of discarded statues in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Bowling Green.
(b) Athenian.
(c) St. Francis.
(d) St. Christopher.

4. Who does the dog not hate but has no use for in "Dog"?
(a) Policemen.
(b) Children.
(c) Vagrants.
(d) Drunks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "I Am Waiting," the poet writes he is waiting for the rebirth of what?

2. In Poem 18, how does the poet feel of his own voice and the sound of birds?

3. What is in the bathtubs in Poem 2?

4. In Poem 13, the poet writes of Dante discovering what?

5. What is the literary allusion in Poem 2?

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