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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) Speak.
(c) Dream.
(d) Wonder.

2. In what way does the poet repeatedly change a line from the song "America" in ""Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) The stars shining black.
(b) My country lies of thee.
(c) Oh say can you sleep.
(d) My country tears of thee.

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

4. Who said that sculpture isn't for young men in "Poem 3" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Renoir.
(b) Carlo Brancusi.
(c) Constantin Brancusi.
(d) Constantin Berliosi.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 15, what stands and waits to perform her own death-defying leap?

2. In Poem 11, the poet writes that "the wounded wilderness of _____ is not the same as the wild west."

3. Where do the "dogs do it" in "Junkman's Obbligato"?

4. What does the poet not see upon the Rhone in "Poem 4" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

5. In Poem 15, what does a poet climb onto of his own making?

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