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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 14, the poet writes, "Don't let that horse eat that ____."
(a) Cloud.
(b) Apple.
(c) Song.
(d) Violin.

2. How does the poet write of knowing whores in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Thirdhand.
(b) Firsthand.
(c) Secondhand.
(d) Vaguely.

3. What is the literary allusion in Poem 2?
(a) Walden.
(b) On the Road.
(c) The Iliad.
(d) The Grapes of Wrath.

4. What will the people miss, having ridden the rails too long in "Poem 2" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) The turn.
(b) The song.
(c) The whistle.
(d) The bells.

5. In "I Am Waiting" the poet writes he is waiting to write the great ____ poem.
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Rhythmic.
(c) Indelible.
(d) Honest.

Short Answer Questions

1. The poet writes he's selling everything and giving the rest to what in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

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

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

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

5. Whose castle stands above the world like a last bastille in Poem 16?

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