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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 author writes in "Poem 3" of "Pictures of the Gone World," "Their stone eyes staring / through ______ years."
(a) Three hundred.
(b) Five thousand.
(c) One thousand.
(d) Three thousand.

2. In "Autobiography," where is the poet leading a quiet life?
(a) Golden Gate.
(b) Mike's Place.
(c) Jack's Place.
(d) The sunset.

3. In Poem 5, in what year does the poet write the Dead Sea Scrolls are found?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1932.

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

5. In "Junkman's Obbligato," what has not yet toppled from his horse?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Washington.
(c) Hamilton.
(d) Miami.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the poet say he is waiting for them to prove is really an American in "I Am Waiting"?

2. In Poem 22, what is Johnny's last name?

3. The author writes of Rimbaud's "nightmare and" what in "Poem 13" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

4. In "Poem 8" of "Pictures of the Gone World," the author writes that the face could just as easily be hurt by laughter or what?

5. In "Poem 7" of "Pictures of the Gone World," what did the Firemen turn on?

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