Man-Moth Quizzes

Man-Moth Quiz

1 The Man-Moth's tear is compared to what?
A vial of poison

A glass of wine

A puddle of rainwater

An underground spring
2 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
It has no set rhyme scheme

AABBAAC

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

ABBA CDDC
3 Which of the following best describes the Man-Moth?
He is a man who can turn into a moth

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

He is a man cursed to live in a moth's body by night

He is a species of moth that lives among humans
4 Which of the following occurs in the work's final 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

Bishop begins to repeat lines from the first stanza
5 Bishop compares the Man-Moth's habit of keeping his hands in his pockets to what?
A person being buried

A mouse entering a hole

A person using mufflers

A child hiding from a bully
6 Which best describes the Man-Moth?
Unrelenting

Cruel

Creative

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

Metaphor

Metonymy

Simile
8 What does the word "palms," as used in this poem, mean?
A part of the hand

A type of tree

Conceals with the hand

To put aside or procrastinate
9 What gift does the Man-Moth offer others?
The third rail

A tear

The moon

His wings
10 Who is the speaker?
The Man-Moth

The Man-Moth's daughter

The Man

An unidentified omniscient individual
11 What does the word "draught" mean?
Attempt

Think

Climb

Drink
12 How many stanzas make up this poem?
3

4

6

8
13 Which of the following is a major theme of this work?
Loneliness

Animal cruelty

Poetry

Parent-child relationships
14 Which sound produces assonance in the phrase "travels backwards"?
V sounds

S sounds

A sounds

There is no assonance in this phrase
15 The third rail is most plausibly a metaphor for what?
Religion

Marriage

Addiction

Discrimination
16 The poem's tone can best be described as:
Dreamlike

Joyous

Lamenting

Erudite
17 The phrase "he flits, / he flutters," is an instance of what?
Assonance

Internal rhyme

Hyperbole

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

Understatement

Onomatopoeia

Metaphor
19 The Man-Moth's eye is metaphorically compared to what?
The tunnel

The night

The moon

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

Rio de Janeiro

A fictional small mountain town

New York
21 What does the word "façade" mean?
To fly or flutter

The front of a building

A type of party

Facial expression
22 Bishop compares the Man-Moth's recurring dreams to what?
The subway's tunnels

A swarm of insects

The phases of the moon

A winding river
23 What does the word "susceptibility" mean?
Suspicion

Unease

Vulnerability

Caution
24 In what year was this poem published?
1946

1997

1953

1928
25 What, according to Bishop's note, inspired this poem?
A newspaper misprint

An extinct moth species

A superhero movie

A child's drawing

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