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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 season is it in "Poem 4" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Winter.
(b) Spring.
(c) Fall.
(d) Summer.

2. The poet uses literary allusion in the line, "I'm tired of waiting for Godot." To which author is he referring?
(a) Arthur Miller.
(b) Albert Camus.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

3. What do the "falcons of the inner eye" do in Poem 11?
(a) Dance and cry.
(b) Dive and die.
(c) Sing and cry.
(d) Scream and die.

4. In Poem 27, what tolled twice, once for the birth of love and once for the death?
(a) A bell.
(b) The clock.
(c) A cloche.
(d) A telephone.

5. In Poem 15, what does a poet climb onto of his own making?
(a) A castle.
(b) A building.
(c) A high wire.
(d) A mountain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does "Poem 4" of "Pictures of the Gone World" take place?

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

3. For whom is the poet waiting to grow up in "I Am Waiting"?

4. In Poem 20, what did the leaves cry?

5. In Poem 12, what did the painting cry at him?

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