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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. Who did the poet believe he was, catching crayfish in the Bronx river in "Autobiography"?
(a) William Rutledge.
(b) Tom Sawyer.
(c) Huckleberry Finn.
(d) Jackson Browne.

2. In Poem 6, whose statue were they putting up?
(a) St. Peter.
(b) St. Louis.
(c) St. Christopher.
(d) St. Francis.

3. "By the time they print your picture / in ________ / you will have become a negative anyway" the poet writes in "Junkman's Obbligato."
(a) Times Magazine.
(b) The paper.
(c) Life Magazine.
(d) New York Magazine.

4. What does the author consider the poems in Chapter 2 to be?
(a) Dance poetry.
(b) Music poetry.
(c) Oral messages.
(d) Image poetry.

5. The author writes of Rimbaud's "nightmare and" what in "Poem 13" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Awakening.
(b) Logic.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Tears.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the poet do with all the old ladies in Poem 18?

2. What has its cookies to give out in "Poem 7" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

3. In "I Am Waiting," Ferlinghetti writes that he is waiting for what to be stored?

4. In Poem 15, what stands and waits to perform her own death-defying leap?

5. What is the woman carrying in Poem 8?

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