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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 does "obbligato" mean?
(a) Ordinary.
(b) Obsequious.
(c) Opulent.
(d) Obligatory.

2. Walking around in museums makes the poet want to do what in "Poem 6" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Sit down.
(b) Cry.
(c) Laugh.
(d) Run.

3. In "I Am Waiting," the poet says he is waiting for the Age of what to drop dead?
(a) Diffidence.
(b) Casualty.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Imposition.

4. What park is referred to in Poem 8?
(a) St. Lawrence.
(b) Golden Gate.
(c) Chiminy.
(d) St. Francis.

5. In "I Am Waiting," the poet writes he is waiting for the rebirth of what?
(a) Truth.
(b) Wonder.
(c) Inconsequence.
(d) Music.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 27, what tolled twice, once for the birth of love and once for the death?

2. In Chapter 2, the author writes that these poems were conceived specifically to be accompanied by what?

3. With what expression does the woman look at the man in Poem 8?

4. What did the Firemen go in to play in "Poem 7" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

5. In what month does Poem 20 take place, when the poet first falls in love?

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