The Mountain (Elizabeth Bishop poem) Quizzes

The Mountain (Elizabeth Bishop poem) Quiz

1 Which of the following is an instance of metaphor?

"Tell me how old I am"

"I start for a second"

"bird-calls / dribble"

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

6

8

4

9
3 The phrase "fly their kites" contains which of the following?

Assonance

Verbal irony

Sibilance

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

With emphatic movements

Unbelievably

Drunkenly

In a stumbling manner
5 What types of stanzas make up this poem?

Tercets

Sestets

Couplets

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

Split

Dirty

Sicken

Fall
7 What does "blench" mean?

Belch

Fall

Flinch

Crush
8 Which of the following is a refrain?

"I am growing deaf."

"The claws are lost somewhere."

"Nobody tells me anything."

"Tell me how old I am."
9 Which best describes the extended metaphor of the mountain enviroment?

It is a quiet, pastoral place representing the paired tranquility and boredom of age

It is a dangerous landscape representing illness and death

It is a harsh, strange landscape representing old age

It is a paradisal space representing heaven
10 The phrase "Nobody tells me anything" is an instance of which of the following?

Simile

Understatement

Hyperbole

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

The villanelle

The sestina

The haiku

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

1884

1996

1928

1952
13 The phrase "like cotton in my ears" is an instance of which of the following?

Metonymy

Metaphor

Personification

Simile
14 What does "impenetrable" mean?

Intimidatingly beautiful

Impossible to contain

Incapable of thought

Impossible to get through
15 Where does the speaker live?

This isn't stated in the poem

London

Brazil

Massachusetts
16 What does "clambering" mean?

Cooking

Climbing

Confusing

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

"the valleys stuff/impenetrable mists"

"An open book confronts me"

"stars go fly their kites."

"They say it is my fault"
18 Who is the poem's speaker?

An older man looking back on his life

A young woman imagining her old age

A young man addressing his beloved

An unidentified elderly person
19 Which best describes the poem's major conflict?

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 discussion with her past self as she grows old

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

Poetry

Time

The New Yorker

The Paris Review
21 What does "demarcation" mean?

Division

Vacation

Disagreement

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

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

End rhyme

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

Resigned

Serene

Jolly

Anxious
24 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

It has no regular rhyme scheme

ABADACAD

AABB CCDD

ABABAB CDCDCD EF
25 What is the poem's meter?

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

Iambic pentameter

Spondaic monometer

Iambic hexameter

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