Man-Moth Quizzes

Man-Moth Quiz

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

A glass of wine

A puddle of rainwater

A vial of poison
2 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABBA CDDC

AABBAAC

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

It has no set rhyme scheme
3 Which of the following best describes the Man-Moth?
He is a man cursed to live in a moth's body by night

He is a man who can turn into a moth

He is a species of moth that lives among humans

He is a shy half-man, half-moth creature
4 Which of the following occurs in the work's final stanza?
The speaker begins using the second person

The work's rhyme scheme abruptly shifts

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 mouse entering a hole

A child hiding from a bully

A person using mufflers

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

Creative

Empathetic

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

Simile

Personification

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

Conceals with the hand

A type of tree

A part of the hand
9 What gift does the Man-Moth offer others?
The third rail

His wings

The moon

A tear
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

Drink

Climb

Think
12 How many stanzas make up this poem?
3

4

6

8
13 Which of the following is a major theme of this work?
Parent-child relationships

Loneliness

Animal cruelty

Poetry
14 Which sound produces assonance in the phrase "travels backwards"?
There is no assonance in this phrase

V sounds

S 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:
Dreamlike

Lamenting

Erudite

Joyous
17 The phrase "he flits, / he flutters," is an instance of what?
Internal rhyme

Assonance

Hyperbole

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

Onomatopoeia

Understatement

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

The tunnel

The night

The moon
20 Where is this poem set?
A fictional small mountain town

A surreal, anonymous city

New York

Rio de Janeiro
21 What does the word "façade" mean?
The front of a building

Facial expression

A type of party

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

A swarm of insects

The subway's tunnels

A winding river
23 What does the word "susceptibility" mean?
Caution

Suspicion

Unease

Vulnerability
24 In what year was this poem published?
1928

1946

1953

1997
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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