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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 streams from the lovers in "Poem 2" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Long hair.
(b) Stinging lips.
(c) Amber voices.
(d) Soft embraces.

2. What stood up in the ending of "Poem 5" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Night's trees.
(b) The lovers.
(c) The moon.
(d) The sun.

3. What does the poet not see upon the Rhone in "Poem 4" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Castle.
(b) Lorelei.
(c) St. Frances.
(d) Artaud.

4. In Poem 21, the poet writes that "she" loved to look at flowers and smell fruit. What staggered through her sleep?
(a) Goats among the sheep.
(b) Halfass drunken sailors.
(c) Poets and madmen.
(d) Wolves in tiger garb.

5. How old was the sculptor when he died in "Poem 3" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) 38.
(b) 28.
(c) 32.
(d) 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 1, the author writes of false windmills and _____ roosters.

2. In "Junkman's Obbligato," what has not yet toppled from his horse?

3. In "Meet Miss Subways," what is the year?

4. What is the repeated refrain in Poem 27?

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

(see the answer key)

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