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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. With whom did the author create an LP of the poems in Chapter 2?
(a) Jack Kerouac.
(b) Allen Ginsberg.
(c) Moody Sanders.
(d) Kenneth Rexroth.

2. Where are the women in the paintings in "Poem 5" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Beaches.
(b) Deserts.
(c) Mountains.
(d) Forests.

3. In Chapter 2, the author writes that these poems were conceived specifically to be accompanied by what?
(a) Jazz music.
(b) Blues music.
(c) Beat music.
(d) Tambourine.

4. Whom does the poet say he is waiting for them to prove is really an American in "I Am Waiting"?
(a) God.
(b) Ginsberg.
(c) Himself.
(d) The Pope.

5. What bird is feeding "on its own breast" in Poem 11?
(a) Thrush.
(b) Eagle.
(c) Ibis.
(d) Falcon.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 5, the guy who shows up late is a kind of what?

2. How many kids were there altogether in "Poem 7" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

3. In "The Long Street," it is the street of what?

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

5. What is the description of the time in "Poem 3" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

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