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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. What is in the bathtubs in Poem 2?
(a) Monsters.
(b) Tigers.
(c) Eagles.
(d) Elephants.

2. In "Poem 1" of "Pictures from the Gone World," how does the author describe the chimneypots?
(a) Corroded.
(b) Flaxen black.
(c) Charley noble.
(d) Cherry red.

3. In "I Am Waiting," Ferlinghetti writes that he is waiting for what to be stored?
(a) The Holy Bible.
(b) The Last Judgment.
(c) The Sun Also Rises.
(d) The Grapes of Wrath.

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

5. Where does the poet suggest sleeping in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Caves.
(b) Phone booths.
(c) Churches.
(d) Deserts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does golf go on in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

2. In "Poem 2" of "Pictures of the Gone World," the author writes, "the steamengine driver don't recognize them new _____ horns."

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

4. For whom is the poet waiting to grow up in "I Am Waiting"?

5. In Poem 4, the poet writes of dead sunflowers and live what?

(see the answer key)

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