Man-Moth Quizzes

Man-Moth Quiz

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

A vial of poison

An underground spring

A glass of wine
2 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABBA CDDC

AABBAAC

It has no set rhyme scheme

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
3 Which of the following best describes the Man-Moth?
He is a shy half-man, half-moth creature

He is a man who can turn into a moth

He is a species of moth that lives among humans

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

A mouse entering a hole

A child hiding from a bully

A person being buried
6 Which best describes the Man-Moth?
Unrelenting

Creative

Cruel

Empathetic
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?
Conceals with the hand

A part of the hand

A type of tree

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

The moon

His wings

The third rail
10 Who is the speaker?
The Man

The Man-Moth

An unidentified omniscient individual

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

Climb

Drink

Think
12 How many stanzas make up this poem?
6

4

8

3
13 Which of the following is a major theme of this work?
Poetry

Loneliness

Animal cruelty

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

There is no assonance in this phrase

A sounds

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

Marriage

Discrimination

Religion
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?
Internal rhyme

Alliteration

Hyperbole

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

Metaphor

Understatement

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

The moon

The lake

The night
20 Where is this poem set?
New York

A surreal, anonymous city

Rio de Janeiro

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

The front of a building

Facial expression

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

A swarm of insects

The phases of the moon

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

Suspicion

Unease

Caution
24 In what year was this poem published?
1953

1928

1946

1997
25 What, according to Bishop's note, inspired this poem?
A newspaper misprint

A superhero movie

An extinct moth species

A child's drawing

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