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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. In what way does the poet repeatedly change a line from the song "America" in ""Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Oh say can you sleep.
(b) The stars shining black.
(c) My country tears of thee.
(d) My country lies of thee.

2. In "Poem 6" of "Pictures of the Gone World," the poet writes that "They say the Spiritual is best conceived in _____ terms."
(a) Literal.
(b) Articulate.
(c) Surreal.
(d) Abstract.

3. Who does the dog not hate but has no use for in "Dog"?
(a) Vagrants.
(b) Policemen.
(c) Children.
(d) Drunks.

4. In Poem 21, from the other side of what do the green birds sing?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Memory.
(c) Silence.
(d) Truth.

5. In Poem 3, the poet writes of fur leaves and cobalt what?
(a) Seas.
(b) Skies.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Dreams.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the poet write he saw again "in a summer of sauterelles" in "Poem 4" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

2. In "Autobiography," who has the poet heard "strained through a sheet"?

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

4. What kind of two-step does the poet write about in Poem 9?

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."

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