Man-Moth Quizzes

Man-Moth Quiz

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

A puddle of rainwater

A glass of wine

A vial of poison

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

ABBA CDDC

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

AABBAAC

It has no set rhyme scheme
3 Which of the following best describes the Man-Moth?

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 shy half-man, half-moth creature

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

Bishop begins to repeat lines from the first 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
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

Unrelenting

Empathetic

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

Personification

Simile

Metonymy

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

Conceals with the hand

A part of the hand

To put aside or procrastinate

A type of tree
9 What gift does the Man-Moth offer others?

The moon

The third rail

His wings

A tear
10 Who is the speaker?

The Man-Moth

The Man-Moth's daughter

An unidentified omniscient individual

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

Think

Attempt

Drink

Climb
12 How many stanzas make up this poem?

6

4

8

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

Loneliness

Animal cruelty

Poetry

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

V sounds

A sounds

S sounds

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

Discrimination

Addiction

Marriage

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

Joyous

Erudite

Dreamlike

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

Alliteration

Hyperbole

Assonance

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 moon

The lake

The night
20 Where is this poem set?

New York

Rio de Janeiro

A surreal, anonymous city

A fictional small mountain town
21 What does the word "façade" mean?

The front of a building

A type of party

To fly or flutter

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

The phases of the moon

A winding river

A swarm of insects

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

Suspicion

Unease

Caution

Vulnerability
24 In what year was this poem published?

1997

1928

1953

1946
25 What, according to Bishop's note, inspired this poem?

A newspaper misprint

An extinct moth species

A child's drawing

A superhero movie

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