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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. What did the Firemen go in to play in "Poem 7" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Go Fish.
(b) Pinochle.
(c) Poker.
(d) Bridge.

2. Who were beguiled by the paintings in "Poem 5" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) American Impressionists.
(b) Spanish Impressionists.
(c) French Impressionists.
(d) French Surrealists.

3. "Poem 8" of "Pictures of the Gone World" begins with the line, "It was a face that ____ could kill."
(a) Darkness.
(b) Justice.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Truth.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 1, the author writes that in the paintings of Goya we see the people of the world when "they first attained the title of" what?

2. What is the description of the time in "Poem 3" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

3. What is the heart compared to in Poem 25?

4. What can you almost see in the works of the sculptor in "Poem 3" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

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

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