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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 can never fade into a money-losing nothingness in Poem 10?
(a) Truth.
(b) Love.
(c) Death.
(d) Beauty.

2. Where does the poet suggest sleeping in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Deserts.
(b) Phone booths.
(c) Churches.
(d) Caves.

3. What is the repeated refrain in Poem 27?
(a) Dove sta amore.
(b) Dolce amore.
(c) Il vueno amore.
(d) C'est amore.

4. In "Meet Miss Subways," what is the year?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1947.

5. "By the time they print your picture / in ________ / you will have become a negative anyway" the poet writes in "Junkman's Obbligato."
(a) New York Magazine.
(b) Times Magazine.
(c) The paper.
(d) Life Magazine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What stands hitched alone in "Poem 10" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

2. Where does the poet ask to go in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

3. What will our eyes be watery with the empty bottles of in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

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

5. In "Autobiography," who has the poet heard "strained through a sheet"?

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