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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. The benches are filled with what kind of discarded statues in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Athenian.
(b) St. Christopher.
(c) Bowling Green.
(d) St. Francis.

2. What is the woman hanging out to dry in "Poem 1" of "Pictures from the Gone World"?
(a) Sheets.
(b) Underpants.
(c) Pants.
(d) Diapers.

3. How were the couples going into the sad water in "Poem 4" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Laughing.
(b) Silently.
(c) Nude.
(d) Gently.

4. When was "Pictures from the Gone World," a collection of excerpts from the author's book of the same title, published?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1940.

5. In "Poem 5" of "Pictures of the Gone World," the poet writes, "I heard the day falling / like the ____ that fell / almost to land."
(a) Leaves.
(b) Gulls.
(c) Raindrops.
(d) Eagles.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Autobiography," where was the poet when Rome was built?

2. In Poem 10, the poet writes that beauty never dies, but lies among the aborigines of what?

3. In "Poem 6" of "Pictures of the Gone World," the poet writes that "They say the Spiritual is best conceived in _____ terms."

4. What will our eyes be watery with the empty bottles of in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

5. What does the woman in Poem 9 have that are bad?

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