Man-Moth Quizzes

Man-Moth Quiz

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

A vial of poison

A glass of wine

A puddle of rainwater

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

AABBAAC

It has no set rhyme scheme

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

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

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

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 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?

Creative

Empathetic

Unrelenting

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

Metonymy

Simile

Metaphor

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

To put aside or procrastinate

A part of the hand

A type of tree

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

His wings

The third rail

The moon

A tear
10 Who is the speaker?

The Man-Moth

The Man-Moth's daughter

The Man

An unidentified omniscient individual
11 What does the word "draught" mean?

Climb

Drink

Attempt

Think
12 How many stanzas make up this poem?

6

4

3

8
13 Which of the following is a major theme of this work?

Poetry

Animal cruelty

Parent-child relationships

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

There is no assonance in this phrase

S sounds

A sounds

V sounds
15 The third rail is most plausibly a metaphor for what?

Religion

Discrimination

Marriage

Addiction
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?

Hyperbole

Internal rhyme

Alliteration

Assonance
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 moon

The tunnel

The night

The lake
20 Where is this poem set?

A surreal, anonymous city

New York

Rio de Janeiro

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

A type of party

Facial expression

The front of a building

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

A winding river

The subway's tunnels

The phases of the moon

A swarm of insects
23 What does the word "susceptibility" mean?

Vulnerability

Caution

Suspicion

Unease
24 In what year was this poem published?

1946

1953

1928

1997
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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