Man-Moth Quizzes

Man-Moth Quiz

1 The Man-Moth's tear is compared to what?
A glass of wine

An underground spring

A puddle of rainwater

A vial of poison
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 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

He is a man who can turn into a moth
4 Which of the following occurs in the work's final stanza?
The speaker begins using the second person

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

The work's rhyme scheme abruptly shifts

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 mouse entering a hole

A person using mufflers

A person being buried

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

Unrelenting

Creative

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

Personification

Metaphor

Metonymy
8 What does the word "palms," as used in this poem, mean?
To put aside or procrastinate

A part of the hand

Conceals with the hand

A type of tree
9 What gift does the Man-Moth offer others?
His wings

The third rail

The moon

A tear
10 Who is the speaker?
An unidentified omniscient individual

The Man

The Man-Moth

The Man-Moth's daughter
11 What does the word "draught" mean?
Attempt

Think

Climb

Drink
12 How many stanzas make up this poem?
4

3

6

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

Loneliness

Parent-child relationships

Poetry
14 Which sound produces assonance in the phrase "travels backwards"?
S sounds

There is no assonance in this phrase

V sounds

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

Addiction

Marriage

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

Dreamlike

Lamenting

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

Assonance

Internal rhyme

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

Onomatopoeia

Understatement

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

The moon

The tunnel

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

A fictional small mountain town

Rio de Janeiro

New York
21 What does the word "façade" mean?
A type of party

To fly or flutter

The front of a building

Facial expression
22 Bishop compares the Man-Moth's recurring dreams to what?
A winding river

The phases of the moon

A swarm of insects

The subway's tunnels
23 What does the word "susceptibility" mean?
Suspicion

Caution

Vulnerability

Unease
24 In what year was this poem published?
1997

1928

1953

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

A superhero movie

An extinct moth species

A newspaper misprint

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