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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. Where does "Autobiography" take place?
(a) Lower East Broadway.
(b) SoHo.
(c) Jackson Square Park.
(d) The Upper East Side.

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

3. How many kids were there altogether in "Poem 7" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Ten.
(b) Six.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

4. In "Poem 2" of "Pictures of the Gone World," to whom does love come harder?
(a) The young.
(b) Women.
(c) Men.
(d) The aged.

5. Besides the Gettysburg address, what other address has the author heard, according to "Autobiography"?
(a) Kerouac.
(b) Home.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Ginsberg.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the poet accuse of elitism in "Poem 6" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

2. In "Poem 12" of "Pictures of the Gone World," the author writes of reading who and thinking of New York?

3. In "Autobiography," what are the French addicts of?

4. In Poem 13, the poet writes of Dante discovering what?

5. What does the woman let fall in "Poem 8" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

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