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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. How many kids were there altogether in "Poem 7" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Ten.

2. In Poem 10, the poet writes that beauty never dies, but lies among the aborigines of what?
(a) Truth.
(b) Art.
(c) Honey.
(d) Death.

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

4. In Poem 16, the poet writes, "Yet away around on the far side like the stage door of a circus tent is a wide wide vent in the _______."
(a) Chamber.
(b) Universe.
(c) Prison.
(d) Battlements.

5. What does the woman in Poem 9 have that are bad?
(a) Eyes.
(b) Skin.
(c) Hair.
(d) Teeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the billiard parlor in "Autobiography"?

2. How is "sister in the street" wearing her brassiere in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

3. What are the "gay cows" chanting in Poem 2?

4. In Poem 14, the poet writes, "Don't let that horse eat that ____."

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

(see the answer key)

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