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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. When was "Pictures from the Gone World," a collection of excerpts from the author's book of the same title, published?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1946.

2. What streams from the lovers in "Poem 2" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) Stinging lips.
(b) Amber voices.
(c) Soft embraces.
(d) Long hair.

3. What went mad in Poem 7?
(a) The leaves.
(b) The birds.
(c) The children.
(d) The fairies.

4. Who were beguiled by the paintings in "Poem 5" of "Pictures of the Gone World"?
(a) French Surrealists.
(b) American Impressionists.
(c) Spanish Impressionists.
(d) French Impressionists.

5. In "Poem 2" of "Pictures of the Gone World," the author writes, "the steamengine driver don't recognize them new _____ horns."
(a) Mechanical.
(b) Fangled.
(c) Electric.
(d) Hip.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides the Gettysburg address, what other address has the author heard, according to "Autobiography"?

2. In Poem 18, how does the poet feel of his own voice and the sound of birds?

3. The poet writes in "Junkman's Obbligato," "Let's go / smelling of _____."

4. In "Poem 2" of "Pictures of the Gone World," to whom does love come harder?

5. In "Poem 2" of "Pictures of the Gone World," where does the rusty spur end up?

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