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?
AABBAAC

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

It has no set rhyme scheme

ABBA CDDC
3 Which of the following best describes the Man-Moth?
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

He is a man cursed to live in a moth's body by night
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

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

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 mouse entering a hole

A person being buried
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

Metaphor

Simile

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

A type of tree

A part of the hand

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

The third rail

His wings

A tear
10 Who is the speaker?
An unidentified omniscient individual

The Man-Moth

The Man

The Man-Moth's daughter
11 What does the word "draught" mean?
Drink

Think

Attempt

Climb
12 How many stanzas make up this poem?
6

4

3

8
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"?
A sounds

V sounds

S sounds

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

Religion

Addiction

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

Lamenting

Dreamlike

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

Internal rhyme

Assonance

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

Metaphor

Personification

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

The lake

The moon

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

A fictional small mountain town

A surreal, anonymous city

New York
21 What does the word "façade" mean?
The front of a building

To fly or flutter

Facial expression

A type of party
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?
Vulnerability

Suspicion

Unease

Caution
24 In what year was this poem published?
1928

1953

1946

1997
25 What, according to Bishop's note, inspired this poem?
A child's drawing

A newspaper misprint

An extinct moth species

A superhero movie

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