Man-Moth Quizzes

Man-Moth Quiz

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

A puddle of rainwater

An underground spring

A glass of wine

A vial of poison
2 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

It has no set rhyme scheme

AABBAAC

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?

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 using mufflers

A mouse entering a hole

A person being buried

A child hiding from a bully
6 Which best describes the Man-Moth?

Cruel

Creative

Empathetic

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

Metonymy

Simile

Personification

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?

A tear

His wings

The moon

The third rail
10 Who is the speaker?

The Man

The Man-Moth's daughter

An unidentified omniscient individual

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

Drink

Attempt

Think

Climb
12 How many stanzas make up this poem?

3

4

8

6
13 Which of the following is a major theme of this work?

Parent-child relationships

Poetry

Animal cruelty

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

V sounds

A sounds

There is no assonance in this phrase

S sounds
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:

Joyous

Dreamlike

Erudite

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

Internal rhyme

Assonance

Hyperbole

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

Personification

Understatement

Metaphor

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

The lake

The tunnel

The moon

The night
20 Where is this poem set?

New York

A surreal, anonymous city

A fictional small mountain town

Rio de Janeiro
21 What does the word "façade" mean?

Facial expression

The front of a building

To fly or flutter

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

A swarm of insects

The subway's tunnels

The phases of the moon

A winding river
23 What does the word "susceptibility" mean?

Caution

Unease

Vulnerability

Suspicion
24 In what year was this poem published?

1946

1953

1928

1997
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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