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?
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 shy half-man, half-moth creature

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

He is a species of moth that lives among humans

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

The speaker begins using the second person
5 Bishop compares the Man-Moth's habit of keeping his hands in his pockets to what?
A mouse entering a hole

A person using mufflers

A child hiding from a bully

A person being buried
6 Which best describes the Man-Moth?
Unrelenting

Creative

Empathetic

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

Personification

Metaphor

Metonymy
8 What does the word "palms," as used in this poem, mean?
A type of tree

To put aside or procrastinate

Conceals with the hand

A part of the hand
9 What gift does the Man-Moth offer others?
The moon

A tear

The third rail

His wings
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

Attempt

Think

Climb
12 How many stanzas make up this poem?
4

3

8

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

Animal cruelty

Loneliness

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

S sounds

V sounds

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

Addiction

Religion

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

Erudite

Joyous

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

Hyperbole

Assonance

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

Personification

Understatement

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

The moon

The lake

The tunnel
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

To fly or flutter

Facial expression

The front of a building
22 Bishop compares the Man-Moth's recurring dreams to what?
A swarm of insects

A winding river

The subway's tunnels

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

Caution

Unease

Vulnerability
24 In what year was this poem published?
1953

1928

1946

1997
25 What, according to Bishop's note, inspired this poem?
A newspaper misprint

A child's drawing

A superhero movie

An extinct moth species

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