Man-Moth Quizzes

Man-Moth Quiz

1 The Man-Moth's tear is compared to what?
A puddle of rainwater

A vial of poison

A glass of wine

An underground spring
2 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
AABBAAC

It has no set rhyme scheme

ABBA CDDC

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
3 Which of the following best describes the Man-Moth?
He is a man cursed to live in a moth's body by night

He is a species of moth that lives among humans

He is a shy half-man, half-moth creature

He is a man who can turn into a moth
4 Which of the following occurs in the work's final stanza?
Bishop begins to repeat lines from the first stanza

The work's rhyme scheme abruptly shifts

The speaker begins using the second person

The poem shifts into the Man-Moth's point of view
5 Bishop compares the Man-Moth's habit of keeping his hands in his pockets to what?
A child hiding from a bully

A person using mufflers

A person being buried

A mouse entering a hole
6 Which best describes the Man-Moth?
Empathetic

Cruel

Creative

Unrelenting
7 The Man-Moth's shadow is compared to a photographer's cloth through what?
Personification

Simile

Metonymy

Metaphor
8 What does the word "palms," as used in this poem, mean?
A type of tree

A part of the hand

Conceals with the hand

To put aside or procrastinate
9 What gift does the Man-Moth offer others?
A tear

The moon

The third rail

His wings
10 Who is the speaker?
An unidentified omniscient individual

The Man-Moth

The Man-Moth's daughter

The Man
11 What does the word "draught" mean?
Attempt

Think

Climb

Drink
12 How many stanzas make up this poem?
8

4

3

6
13 Which of the following is a major theme of this work?
Animal cruelty

Loneliness

Poetry

Parent-child relationships
14 Which sound produces assonance in the phrase "travels backwards"?
There is no assonance in this phrase

S sounds

V sounds

A sounds
15 The third rail is most plausibly a metaphor for what?
Addiction

Religion

Discrimination

Marriage
16 The poem's tone can best be described as:
Joyous

Erudite

Lamenting

Dreamlike
17 The phrase "he flits, / he flutters," is an instance of what?
Hyperbole

Assonance

Internal rhyme

Alliteration
18 The line "He does not see the moon; he observes only her vast properties," contains which of the following?
Understatement

Metaphor

Onomatopoeia

Personification
19 The Man-Moth's eye is metaphorically compared to what?
The lake

The night

The tunnel

The moon
20 Where is this poem set?
A surreal, anonymous city

Rio de Janeiro

New York

A fictional small mountain town
21 What does the word "façade" mean?
A type of party

The front of a building

To fly or flutter

Facial expression
22 Bishop compares the Man-Moth's recurring dreams to what?
The phases of the moon

A winding river

The subway's tunnels

A swarm of insects
23 What does the word "susceptibility" mean?
Vulnerability

Unease

Caution

Suspicion
24 In what year was this poem published?
1946

1953

1928

1997
25 What, according to Bishop's note, inspired this poem?
A superhero movie

A child's drawing

A newspaper misprint

An extinct moth species

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