Man-Moth Quizzes

Man-Moth Quiz

1 The Man-Moth's tear is compared to what?

An underground spring

A puddle of rainwater

A vial of poison

A glass of wine
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 man cursed to live in a moth's body by night

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

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

The poem shifts into the Man-Moth's point of view

The work's rhyme scheme abruptly shifts

The speaker begins using the second person

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?

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

Conceals with the hand

A part of the hand

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

A tear

The third rail

His wings

The moon
10 Who is the speaker?

An unidentified omniscient individual

The Man-Moth's daughter

The Man-Moth

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

Climb

Drink

Attempt

Think
12 How many stanzas make up this poem?

3

8

6

4
13 Which of the following is a major theme of this work?

Animal cruelty

Parent-child relationships

Poetry

Loneliness
14 Which sound produces assonance in the phrase "travels backwards"?

A sounds

S sounds

V sounds

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

Discrimination

Religion

Addiction

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

Dreamlike

Erudite

Joyous

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

Alliteration

Hyperbole

Assonance

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

Onomatopoeia

Metaphor

Personification

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

The night

The tunnel

The lake

The moon
20 Where is this poem set?

New York

A fictional small mountain town

Rio de Janeiro

A surreal, anonymous city
21 What does the word "façade" mean?

Facial expression

A type of party

The front of a building

To fly or flutter
22 Bishop compares the Man-Moth's recurring dreams to what?

A swarm of insects

A winding river

The subway's tunnels

The phases of the moon
23 What does the word "susceptibility" mean?

Caution

Vulnerability

Unease

Suspicion
24 In what year was this poem published?

1953

1997

1928

1946
25 What, according to Bishop's note, inspired this poem?

A superhero movie

An extinct moth species

A newspaper misprint

A child's drawing

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