View a FREE sample

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. In Poem 4, the poet writes of dead sunflowers and live what?
(a) Butterflies.
(b) Monsters.
(c) Telephones.
(d) Subways.

2. 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) The Pope.
(d) Himself.

3. Where does golf go on in "Junkman's Obbligato"?
(a) Jackson Square.
(b) Central Park.
(c) Burning Tree.
(d) Golden Gate.

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

5. In Poem 5, in what year does the poet write the Dead Sea Scrolls are found?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1947.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the "patriotic maidens" wearing in Poem 2?

2. In Poem 6, whose statue were they putting up?

3. Where did the Widder Fogliani have whiskers?

4. The author writes of Rimbaud's "nightmare and" what in "Poem 13" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

5. What magazine did the poet read as a boy, in "Autobiography"?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 170 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample