Man-Moth Quizzes

Man-Moth Quiz

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

A glass of wine

A puddle of rainwater

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

The work's rhyme scheme abruptly shifts

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 child hiding from a bully

A person using mufflers

A mouse entering a hole

A person being buried
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?
Metaphor

Metonymy

Personification

Simile
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

A tear

The third rail

His wings
10 Who is the speaker?
An unidentified omniscient individual

The Man-Moth's daughter

The Man

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

Climb

Drink

Attempt
12 How many stanzas make up this poem?
6

8

4

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

Parent-child relationships

Loneliness

Animal cruelty
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?
Religion

Marriage

Discrimination

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?
Alliteration

Internal rhyme

Hyperbole

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

Understatement

Onomatopoeia

Metaphor
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

Rio de Janeiro

A fictional small mountain town

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?
A swarm of insects

The subway's tunnels

A winding river

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

Unease

Suspicion

Caution
24 In what year was this poem published?
1928

1953

1997

1946
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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