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

2. What color is the woman's hair in "Poem 1" of "Pictures from the Gone World"?
(a) Auburn.
(b) Red.
(c) Gold.
(d) Black.

3. What is the description of the time in "Poem 3" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Days before.
(b) Wintertime.
(c) Hintertime.
(d) Yore.

4. Who lay and loved in the "blowing yellow broom" in "Poem 5" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Revellers.
(b) Picnickers.
(c) Acrobats.
(d) Children.

5. The benches are filled with what kind of discarded statues in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Bowling Green.
(b) Athenian.
(c) St. Francis.
(d) St. Christopher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the heart compared to in Poem 25?

2. What do the "falcons of the inner eye" do in Poem 11?

3. The poet writes in Poem 13 that he would paint a different kind of what?

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

5. In "Autobiography," where was the poet when Rome was built?

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