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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 poet writes of staggering into what kind of sunsets in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) East River.
(b) Snowy.
(c) West coast.
(d) Rainy.

2. What kind of clowns "always making up imaginary scenes with all our masks for faces" does the poet refer to in Poem 16?
(a) Flat faced.
(b) Jubilant juggling.
(c) Smoke-stenched.
(d) Emmett Kelly.

3. In "Autobiography," what are the French addicts of?
(a) Absinthe.
(b) Pinball.
(c) Heroin.
(d) Coffee.

4. What do the subjects of "Poem 6" of "Pictures of the Gone World" do with their "high heads"?
(a) Tilt them.
(b) Totter them.
(c) Nod them.
(d) Shake them.

5. What is the repeated refrain in Poem 27?
(a) Dolce amore.
(b) Il vueno amore.
(c) C'est amore.
(d) Dove sta amore.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who lay and loved in the "blowing yellow broom" in "Poem 5" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

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

4. Who is the girl the poet remembers in "Poem 7" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

5. In the poem, "Dog," what does the dog see in Chinatown windows?

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