The Mountain (Elizabeth Bishop poem) Quizzes

The Mountain (Elizabeth Bishop poem) Quiz

1 Which of the following is an instance of metaphor?

The poem contains no metaphors

"bird-calls / dribble"

"I start for a second"

"Tell me how old I am"
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?

4

6

9

8
3 The phrase "fly their kites" contains which of the following?

Sibilance

Alliteration

Verbal irony

Assonance
4 What does "staggeringly" mean in this context?

Unbelievably

In a stumbling manner

With emphatic movements

Drunkenly
5 What types of stanzas make up this poem?

Sestets

Couplets

Quatrains

Tercets
6 What does "sift" most closely mean here?

Sicken

Split

Dirty

Fall
7 What does "blench" mean?

Crush

Belch

Fall

Flinch
8 Which of the following is a refrain?

"I am growing deaf."

"Tell me how old I am."

"The claws are lost somewhere."

"Nobody tells me anything."
9 Which best describes the extended metaphor of the mountain enviroment?

It is a paradisal space representing heaven

It is a harsh, strange landscape representing old age

It is a dangerous landscape representing illness and death

It is a quiet, pastoral place representing the paired tranquility and boredom of age
10 The phrase "Nobody tells me anything" is an instance of which of the following?

Simile

Hyperbole

Understatement

Personification
11 Which poetic form does "The Mountain" resemble?

The sestina

The haiku

The villanelle

The sonnet
12 In what year was "The Mountain" first published?

1952

1928

1884

1996
13 The phrase "like cotton in my ears" is an instance of which of the following?

Metonymy

Personification

Simile

Metaphor
14 What does "impenetrable" mean?

Impossible to contain

Impossible to get through

Intimidatingly beautiful

Incapable of thought
15 Where does the speaker live?

Brazil

Massachusetts

London

This isn't stated in the poem
16 What does "clambering" mean?

Climbing

Cooking

Confusing

Struggling
17 Which of the following is NOT an example of personification?

"They say it is my fault"

"An open book confronts me"

"the valleys stuff/impenetrable mists"

"stars go fly their kites."
18 Who is the poem's speaker?

An unidentified elderly person

An older man looking back on his life

A young woman imagining her old age

A young man addressing his beloved
19 Which best describes the poem's major conflict?

It is the speaker's discussion with her past self as she grows old

It is the speaker's argument with her daughter about living together

It is the speaker's attempt to reach the top of the mountain

It is the speaker's struggle to maintain dignity and comfort in old age
20 In which magazine did this poem first appear?

The New Yorker

Poetry

Time

The Paris Review
21 What does "demarcation" mean?

Vacation

Tarnish

Disagreement

Division
22 The phrase "deepest demarcation" is an instance of which of the following?

Assonance

Alliteration

End rhyme

Onomatopoeia
23 Which of the following best describes this poem's tone?

Resigned

Anxious

Jolly

Serene
24 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

AABB CCDD

ABABAB CDCDCD EF

ABADACAD

It has no regular rhyme scheme
25 What is the poem's meter?

Though the poem has rhythmic patterns, it has no regular meter

Iambic hexameter

Spondaic monometer

Iambic pentameter

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