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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 19, the poet writes, "like every morning with its sharp shadows shadowing a ______."
(a) Paradise.
(b) Horror.
(c) Night.
(d) Landing.

2. In Chapter 2, the author writes that these poems were conceived specifically to be accompanied by what?
(a) Beat music.
(b) Tambourine.
(c) Jazz music.
(d) Blues music.

3. What does the poet not see upon the Rhone in "Poem 4" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Artaud.
(b) Castle.
(c) St. Frances.
(d) Lorelei.

4. In "Poem 6" of "Pictures of the Gone World," the author writes that he always feels so "constipated / in those / high _____."
(a) Altitudes.
(b) Plateaus.
(c) Situations.
(d) Vantage points.

5. From where will the carpenter not come down in Poem 5?
(a) His throne.
(b) His tree.
(c) His cross.
(d) His mountain.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 21, the poet writes that "she" loved to look at flowers and smell fruit. What staggered through her sleep?

2. Where are the women in the paintings in "Poem 5" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

3. Where does golf go on in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

4. In "Poem 6" of "Pictures of the Gone World," the poet writes that "They say the Spiritual is best conceived in _____ terms."

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

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