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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 "The Long Street," the poet writes ""Oaklands of the soul /____ of the Imagination."
(a) Chicagos.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) New Yorks.
(d) Dublins.

2. In "Meet Miss Subways," what is the year?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1948.

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

4. What is the poet waiting to just stop rolling along past the country club in "I Am Waiting"?
(a) The Jesus caravan.
(b) The Silent Ship.
(c) Old Man River.
(d) The Ship of Fools.

5. Who is the girl the poet remembers in "Poem 7" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Molly.
(c) Laura.
(d) Jenny.

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. How does the poet describe the sun which "hung on the hills" in "Poem 5" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

3. In "The Long Street," it is the street of what?

4. Where does the poet suggest sleeping in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

5. In Poem 15, what does a poet climb onto of his own making?

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