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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 has its cookies to give out in "Poem 7" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Fortune.
(b) Mother Nature.
(c) Father Time.
(d) Truth.

2. Who is the painter discussed in "Poem 5" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Sarolla.
(b) Monet.
(c) Van Gogh.
(d) Goya.

3. What is the Widder Fogliani otherwise known as?
(a) Bella Gloria.
(b) Bella Lana.
(c) Bella Sara.
(d) Bella Donna.

4. What is the name of the billiard parlor in "Autobiography"?
(a) Dante.
(b) Homer.
(c) Jack.
(d) Mike.

5. In Poem 11, the poet writes that "the wounded wilderness of _____ is not the same as the wild west."
(a) Death Valley.
(b) Sanders Graves.
(c) Morris Mountain.
(d) Morris Graves.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Poem 10, the poet writes that beauty never dies, but lies among the aborigines of what?

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

3. In what month does Poem 20 take place, when the poet first falls in love?

4. Where are the women in the paintings in "Poem 5" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?

5. In Poem 14, the poet writes, "Don't let that horse eat that ____."

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