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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 27, what tolled twice, once for the birth of love and once for the death?
(a) A telephone.
(b) A bell.
(c) A cloche.
(d) The clock.

2. In Poem 21, from the other side of what do the green birds sing?
(a) Truth.
(b) Memory.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Silence.

3. Where did the Widder Fogliani have whiskers?
(a) On her chest.
(b) On her soul.
(c) On her heart.
(d) On her chin.

4. In Poem 6, what wouldn't sing where the statue was being erected?
(a) Angels.
(b) Girls.
(c) Choirs.
(d) Birds.

5. With whom did the author create an LP of the poems in Chapter 2?
(a) Jack Kerouac.
(b) Allen Ginsberg.
(c) Kenneth Rexroth.
(d) Moody Sanders.

Short Answer Questions

1. What streams from the lovers in "Poem 2" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

2. In Poem 7, the poet writes, "What could she say to the fantastic _____

3. Who does the dog not hate but has no use for in "Dog"?

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

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

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