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?
ABBA CDDC

It has no set rhyme scheme

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

AABBAAC
3 Which of the following best describes the Man-Moth?
He is a species of moth that lives among humans

He is a man who can turn into a moth

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

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

Bishop begins to repeat lines from the first stanza

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 mouse entering a hole

A child hiding from a bully

A person using mufflers

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

Unrelenting

Empathetic

Creative
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?
A type of tree

A part of the hand

To put aside or procrastinate

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

His wings

A tear

The third rail
10 Who is the speaker?
The Man-Moth's daughter

The Man-Moth

An unidentified omniscient individual

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

Drink

Attempt

Think
12 How many stanzas make up this poem?
4

3

6

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

Poetry

Loneliness

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

V sounds

There is no assonance in this phrase

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

Marriage

Religion

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

Joyous

Lamenting

Dreamlike
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?
Understatement

Onomatopoeia

Personification

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

The tunnel

The lake

The moon
20 Where is this poem set?
A surreal, anonymous city

A fictional small mountain town

Rio de Janeiro

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

A type of party

Facial expression

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

The phases of the moon

A swarm of insects

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

Caution

Unease

Vulnerability
24 In what year was this poem published?
1953

1946

1928

1997
25 What, according to Bishop's note, inspired this poem?
A superhero movie

An extinct moth species

A newspaper misprint

A child's drawing

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