Filling Station Quizzes

Filling Station Quiz

1 What is the station's furniture made of?
Plastic

Wicker

Oil Cans

Wood
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?
Ten

Four

Eight

Six
3 When was this poem published?
2007

1965

1914

1982
4 What is a doily?
A snack popular in midcentury America

An oil can

A popular saying

A lacy ornament
5 Which of the following is extensively used in this work?
Metonymy

Parentheses

Semicolons

Onomatopoeia
6 Which of the following is a prominent motif in this poem?
Road signs

Animals

Siblings

Flowers
7 Which of the following is a major theme?
Friendship

Adventure

Family

Religion
8 What does "wickerwork" mean?
Made of repurposed industrial materials

Made of woven twigs

Made of embroidered fabric

Makeshift and precarious
9 In which collection was this poem first published?
Questions of Travel

The Collected Works of Elizabeth Bishop

North and South

Geography III
10 What kind of animal lives at the station?
A snake

A spider

A cat

A dog
11 Who is the speaker?
A mother

A teenage boy

The speaker is not identified

A university student
12 Which of the following is an example of alliteration?
"dirty dog"

"certain color"

"Embroidered in a daisy stitch"

"careful with that match"
13 How does the motif of oil shift throughout the poem?
It has a negative association at the start of the work, but a positive one by the end

It has a neutral association at the start of the work, but a negative one by the end

Oil is not a motif in this poem

It has a positive association at the start of the work, but a negative one by the end
14 Who runs the filling station?
Twin brothers

A very old man

A family with several sons

A group of young women
15 What does "saucy" most closely mean?
Overdone

Flippant

Beautiful

Funny
16 Where is the filling station?
Canada

Massachusetts

Scotland

The location is never stated
17 What does the doily most clearly symbolize?
Poverty

Love

The arts

Femininity
18 What does a "monkey suit" refer to in this context?
A cheap rented business suit

A uniform

A child's school uniform

A monkey costume
19 What is a filling station?
A gas station

A roadside restaurant

A general store

A dive bar
20 Which best describes the speaker at the start end end of the poem?
Excited; Humbled

Angry; Resigned

Disgusted; Curious

Rushed; Contented
21 What is the poem's primary conflict?
The fistfight between the car owner and the filling station employee

The speaker's internal emotional shifts regarding the filling station

The speaker's moment of tension with the filling station owner

The filling station owner's refusal to help the speaker
22 How does the speaker initially characterize her setting?
Dirty and greasy

Desolate and frightening

Comfortable and soothing

Chaotic and joyful
23 Which is an example of personification?
"hirsute begonia"

"somebody loves us"

"a daisy stitch"

"cement porch"
24 How does Bishop characterize passing cars?
"cautious"

"mercurial"

"high-strung"

"comatose"
25 The poem's final line is an instance of what?
Simile

Personification

Hyperbole

Metaphor

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