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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. Whom does the poet say he is waiting for them to prove is really an American in "I Am Waiting"?
(a) God.
(b) Ginsberg.
(c) Himself.
(d) The Pope.

2. The poet uses literary allusion in the line, "I'm tired of waiting for Godot." To which author is he referring?
(a) Arthur Miller.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Albert Camus.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

3. In "Poem 5" of "Pictures of the Gone World," the poet writes, "I heard the day falling / like the ____ that fell / almost to land."
(a) Eagles.
(b) Gulls.
(c) Leaves.
(d) Raindrops.

4. Who said that sculpture isn't for young men in "Poem 3" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Constantin Berliosi.
(b) Constantin Brancusi.
(c) Carlo Brancusi.
(d) Renoir.

5. What will be "stuck to our pants" years later in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Cigarette papers.
(b) Mud and debris.
(c) Chalked up ponies.
(d) Cement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the literary allusion in Poem 2?

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

3. The poet writes in "I Am Waiting" that he is waiting for a religious revival to sweep through the state of what?

4. What went mad in Poem 7?

5. The man in Poem 8 is carrying an old beat-up what?

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