The Mountain (Elizabeth Bishop poem) Quizzes

The Mountain (Elizabeth Bishop poem) Quiz

1 Which of the following is an instance of metaphor?
"bird-calls / dribble"

"I start for a second"

"Tell me how old I am"

The poem contains no metaphors
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?
4

9

8

6
3 The phrase "fly their kites" contains which of the following?
Assonance

Sibilance

Alliteration

Verbal irony
4 What does "staggeringly" mean in this context?
Unbelievably

In a stumbling manner

Drunkenly

With emphatic movements
5 What types of stanzas make up this poem?
Quatrains

Couplets

Tercets

Sestets
6 What does "sift" most closely mean here?
Fall

Dirty

Sicken

Split
7 What does "blench" mean?
Fall

Flinch

Crush

Belch
8 Which of the following is a refrain?
"The claws are lost somewhere."

"I am growing deaf."

"Tell me how old I am."

"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 dangerous landscape representing illness and death

It is a harsh, strange landscape representing old age

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

Personification

Hyperbole

Understatement
11 Which poetic form does "The Mountain" resemble?
The villanelle

The sonnet

The haiku

The sestina
12 In what year was "The Mountain" first published?
1952

1884

1996

1928
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?
Intimidatingly beautiful

Impossible to contain

Impossible to get through

Incapable of thought
15 Where does the speaker live?
Massachusetts

Brazil

This isn't stated in the poem

London
16 What does "clambering" mean?
Confusing

Cooking

Struggling

Climbing
17 Which of the following is NOT an example of personification?
"the valleys stuff/impenetrable mists"

"stars go fly their kites."

"An open book confronts me"

"They say it is my fault"
18 Who is the poem's speaker?
An unidentified elderly person

A young woman imagining her old age

A young man addressing his beloved

An older man looking back on his life
19 Which best describes the poem's major conflict?
It is the speaker's struggle to maintain dignity and comfort in old age

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

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

It is the speaker's argument with her daughter about living together
20 In which magazine did this poem first appear?
Time

The Paris Review

The New Yorker

Poetry
21 What does "demarcation" mean?
Division

Tarnish

Disagreement

Vacation
22 The phrase "deepest demarcation" is an instance of which of the following?
End rhyme

Assonance

Onomatopoeia

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

Serene

Jolly

Anxious
24 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABADACAD

ABABAB CDCDCD EF

AABB CCDD

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

Iambic hexameter

Spondaic monometer

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

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