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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 the woman say we do differently at night in "Poem 8" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Think.
(b) Dream.
(c) Speak.
(d) Wonder.

2. Where will "we" be puking in, "wailing for a winter coat," in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Jackson Square.
(b) Pawn shops.
(c) Lonely diners.
(d) Golden Gate Park.

3. 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) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Albert Camus.

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

5. In Poem 6, whose statue were they putting up?
(a) St. Louis.
(b) St. Peter.
(c) St. Francis.
(d) St. Christopher.

Short Answer Questions

1. Along with sleight-of-foot tricks, what does the poet perform in Poem 15?

2. What stood up in the ending of "Poem 5" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

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

4. Whose castle stands above the world like a last bastille in Poem 16?

5. What streams from the lovers in "Poem 2" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

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