Filling Station Quizzes

Filling Station Quiz

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

Wicker

Plastic

Oil Cans
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?
Eight

Ten

Six

Four
3 When was this poem published?
1965

2007

1982

1914
4 What is a doily?
A lacy ornament

A snack popular in midcentury America

An oil can

A popular saying
5 Which of the following is extensively used in this work?
Parentheses

Semicolons

Metonymy

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

Road signs

Flowers

Siblings
7 Which of the following is a major theme?
Religion

Family

Friendship

Adventure
8 What does "wickerwork" mean?
Made of woven twigs

Makeshift and precarious

Made of embroidered fabric

Made of repurposed industrial materials
9 In which collection was this poem first published?
North and South

The Collected Works of Elizabeth Bishop

Questions of Travel

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

A cat

A spider

A snake
11 Who is the speaker?
A mother

The speaker is not identified

A teenage boy

A university student
12 Which of the following is an example of alliteration?
"certain color"

"dirty dog"

"careful with that match"

"Embroidered in a daisy stitch"
13 How does the motif of oil shift throughout the poem?
It has a positive 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 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
14 Who runs the filling station?
A family with several sons

A very old man

Twin brothers

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

Beautiful

Flippant

Overdone
16 Where is the filling station?
Scotland

The location is never stated

Massachusetts

Canada
17 What does the doily most clearly symbolize?
The arts

Love

Poverty

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

A monkey costume

A uniform

A child's school uniform
19 What is a filling station?
A gas station

A roadside restaurant

A dive bar

A general store
20 Which best describes the speaker at the start end end of the poem?
Rushed; Contented

Excited; Humbled

Angry; Resigned

Disgusted; Curious
21 What is the poem's primary conflict?
The filling station owner's refusal to help the speaker

The fistfight between the car owner and the filling station employee

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

The speaker's internal emotional shifts regarding the filling station
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?
"cement porch"

"somebody loves us"

"a daisy stitch"

"hirsute begonia"
24 How does Bishop characterize passing cars?
"mercurial"

"cautious"

"comatose"

"high-strung"
25 The poem's final line is an instance of what?
Hyperbole

Metaphor

Simile

Personification

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