Man-Moth Quizzes

Man-Moth Quiz

1 The Man-Moth's tear is compared to what?
A glass of wine

An underground spring

A puddle of rainwater

A vial of poison
2 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
It has no set rhyme scheme

ABBA CDDC

AABBAAC

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 speaker begins using the second person

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

The work's rhyme scheme abruptly shifts

Bishop begins to repeat lines from the first stanza
5 Bishop compares the Man-Moth's habit of keeping his hands in his pockets to what?
A child hiding from a bully

A person using mufflers

A person being buried

A mouse entering a hole
6 Which best describes the Man-Moth?
Unrelenting

Empathetic

Cruel

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

Personification

Metonymy

Simile
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

His wings

The third rail

The moon
10 Who is the speaker?
The Man-Moth's daughter

The Man

An unidentified omniscient individual

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

Think

Drink

Attempt
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

Animal cruelty

Poetry

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

V sounds

S sounds

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

Marriage

Discrimination

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

Lamenting

Joyous

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

Hyperbole

Internal rhyme

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

Understatement

Onomatopoeia

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

The moon

The tunnel

The lake
20 Where is this poem set?
Rio de Janeiro

New York

A fictional small mountain town

A surreal, anonymous city
21 What does the word "façade" mean?
To fly or flutter

The front of a building

Facial expression

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

A swarm of insects

A winding river

The phases of the moon
23 What does the word "susceptibility" mean?
Unease

Vulnerability

Suspicion

Caution
24 In what year was this poem published?
1953

1928

1997

1946
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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