Man-Moth Quizzes

Man-Moth Quiz

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

A glass of wine

A puddle of rainwater

An underground spring

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 shy half-man, half-moth creature

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
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

The speaker begins using the second person

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 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?

Empathetic

Unrelenting

Creative

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

Simile

Metaphor

Personification

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

A part of the hand

Conceals with the hand

A type of tree

To put aside or procrastinate
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-Moth

The Man-Moth's daughter

An unidentified omniscient individual

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

Drink

Think

Climb

Attempt
12 How many stanzas make up this poem?

4

6

8

3
13 Which of the following is a major theme of this work?

Poetry

Parent-child relationships

Animal cruelty

Loneliness
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?

Religion

Marriage

Discrimination

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

Erudite

Dreamlike

Lamenting

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

Assonance

Hyperbole

Alliteration

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

Understatement

Metaphor

Personification

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

The lake

The moon

The night

The tunnel
20 Where is this poem set?

A surreal, anonymous city

Rio de Janeiro

New York

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

Facial expression

A type of party

The front of a building

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

A swarm of insects

The phases of the moon

The subway's tunnels

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

Caution

Unease

Vulnerability

Suspicion
24 In what year was this poem published?

1946

1928

1997

1953
25 What, according to Bishop's note, inspired this poem?

A superhero movie

A newspaper misprint

A child's drawing

An extinct moth species

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