Man-Moth Quizzes

Man-Moth Quiz

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

A glass of wine

A puddle of rainwater

A vial of poison

An underground spring
2 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

AABBAAC

ABBA CDDC

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

It has no set rhyme scheme
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 speaker begins using the second person

Bishop begins to repeat lines from the first stanza

The work's rhyme scheme abruptly shifts

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 being buried

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

Creative

Unrelenting

Cruel

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

Personification

Metaphor

Metonymy

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

A type of tree

To put aside or procrastinate

A part of the hand

Conceals with the hand
9 What gift does the Man-Moth offer others?

The third rail

The moon

A tear

His wings
10 Who is the speaker?

The Man-Moth's daughter

An unidentified omniscient individual

The Man-Moth

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

Climb

Attempt

Drink

Think
12 How many stanzas make up this poem?

6

8

4

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

Loneliness

Poetry

Animal cruelty

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

V sounds

S sounds

A sounds

There is no assonance in this phrase
15 The third rail is most plausibly a metaphor for what?

Addiction

Marriage

Religion

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

Lamenting

Joyous

Dreamlike

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

Internal rhyme

Alliteration

Assonance

Hyperbole
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 moon

The tunnel

The night

The lake
20 Where is this poem set?

A fictional small mountain town

New York

Rio de Janeiro

A surreal, anonymous city
21 What does the word "façade" mean?

A type of party

The front of a building

To fly or flutter

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

A swarm of insects

The phases of the moon

A winding river

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

Caution

Vulnerability

Unease

Suspicion
24 In what year was this poem published?

1946

1997

1953

1928
25 What, according to Bishop's note, inspired this poem?

An extinct moth species

A superhero movie

A newspaper misprint

A child's drawing

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