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?
AABBAAC

It has no set rhyme scheme

ABBA CDDC

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 species of moth that lives among humans

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 work's rhyme scheme abruptly shifts

The speaker begins using the second person

Bishop begins to repeat lines from the first stanza

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 being buried

A person using mufflers

A mouse entering a hole

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

Empathetic

Unrelenting

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

Metaphor

Simile

Metonymy
8 What does the word "palms," as used in this poem, mean?
A type of tree

A part of the hand

To put aside or procrastinate

Conceals with the hand
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-Moth

An unidentified omniscient individual

The Man-Moth's daughter

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

Climb

Think

Attempt
12 How many stanzas make up this poem?
3

6

8

4
13 Which of the following is a major theme of this work?
Parent-child relationships

Loneliness

Poetry

Animal cruelty
14 Which sound produces assonance in the phrase "travels backwards"?
A sounds

There is no assonance in this phrase

S sounds

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

Discrimination

Marriage

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

Dreamlike

Lamenting

Joyous
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?
Metaphor

Onomatopoeia

Personification

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

The lake

The night

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

New York

Rio de Janeiro

A fictional small mountain town
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?
A winding river

The subway's tunnels

The phases of the moon

A swarm of insects
23 What does the word "susceptibility" mean?
Unease

Suspicion

Caution

Vulnerability
24 In what year was this poem published?
1997

1946

1953

1928
25 What, according to Bishop's note, inspired this poem?
An extinct moth species

A child's drawing

A superhero movie

A newspaper misprint

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