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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. The poet uses literary allusion in the line, "I'm tired of waiting for Godot." To which author is he referring?
(a) Arthur Miller.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Albert Camus.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

2. In the poem, "Dog," what does the dog see in Chinatown windows?
(a) Chickens.
(b) Wontons.
(c) Drunks.
(d) Children.

3. In Poem 19, the poet writes, "like every morning with its sharp shadows shadowing a ______."
(a) Paradise.
(b) Horror.
(c) Landing.
(d) Night.

4. In Poem 17, what kind of pierrots castrate disaster?
(a) Pantomimic.
(b) Candy-striped.
(c) Elegant.
(d) White-faced.

5. In "Junkman's Obbligato," the poet writes, "Empty out your pockets and _____."
(a) Disappear.
(b) Fall asleep.
(c) Awaken.
(d) Arouse.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The poet writes in "I Am Waiting," that he is waiting for the deepest South to just stop what?

3. What bird is feeding "on its own breast" in Poem 11?

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

5. "Poem 8" of "Pictures of the Gone World" begins with the line, "It was a face that ____ could kill."

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