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

2. In Poem 5, the guy who shows up late is a kind of what?
(a) Carpenter.
(b) Jeweler.
(c) Hustler.
(d) Highwayman.

3. The poet writes he's selling everything and giving the rest to what in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Good Will Industries.
(b) Homeless men he passes.
(c) The ragtag crew of nonpatriots.
(d) The shoremen on leave.

4. What kind of clowns "always making up imaginary scenes with all our masks for faces" does the poet refer to in Poem 16?
(a) Flat faced.
(b) Emmett Kelly.
(c) Smoke-stenched.
(d) Jubilant juggling.

5. The poet writes in "I Am Waiting" that he is waiting for God to look to see the Ode to the Confederate Dead as a real what?
(a) Tragedy.
(b) Farce.
(c) Irony.
(d) Joy.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes in "Autobiography," "I once started out / to walk around the world / but ended up in ______."

2. Who said that sculpture isn't for young men in "Poem 3" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

3. What does the poet not see upon the Rhone in "Poem 4" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

4. In Poem 20, what did the leaves cry?

5. In Poem 10, what does the poet write he has not lain with all his life?

(see the answer key)

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