Man-Moth Quizzes

Man-Moth Quiz

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

A vial of poison

A glass of wine

An underground spring

A puddle of rainwater
2 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

AABBAAC

ABBA CDDC

It has no set rhyme scheme

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
3 Which of the following best describes the Man-Moth?

He is a species of moth that lives among humans

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 man who can turn into a moth
4 Which of the following occurs in the work's final stanza?

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

Bishop begins to repeat lines from the first stanza

The work's rhyme scheme abruptly shifts

The speaker begins using the second person
5 Bishop compares the Man-Moth's habit of keeping his hands in his pockets to what?

A child hiding from a bully

A mouse entering a hole

A person being buried

A person using mufflers
6 Which best describes the Man-Moth?

Cruel

Unrelenting

Empathetic

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

Metaphor

Simile

Metonymy

Personification
8 What does the word "palms," as used in this poem, mean?

Conceals with the hand

A type of tree

A part of the hand

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

The third rail

His wings

A tear

The moon
10 Who is the speaker?

An unidentified omniscient individual

The Man-Moth's daughter

The Man

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

Think

Drink

Climb

Attempt
12 How many stanzas make up this poem?

4

8

6

3
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"?

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

Religion

Discrimination

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

Joyous

Dreamlike

Erudite

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

Assonance

Hyperbole

Alliteration

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

Understatement

Onomatopoeia

Personification

Metaphor
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?

A fictional small mountain town

New York

A surreal, anonymous city

Rio de Janeiro
21 What does the word "façade" mean?

The front of a building

To fly or flutter

Facial expression

A type of party
22 Bishop compares the Man-Moth's recurring dreams to what?

The phases of the moon

A swarm of insects

A winding river

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

Suspicion

Unease

Caution

Vulnerability
24 In what year was this poem published?

1928

1953

1946

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

An extinct moth species

A superhero movie

A child's drawing

A newspaper misprint

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