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"

"bird-calls / dribble"

"I start for a second"

The poem contains no metaphors
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?
9

8

4

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

Assonance

Verbal irony

Alliteration
4 What does "staggeringly" mean in this context?
With emphatic movements

Drunkenly

In a stumbling manner

Unbelievably
5 What types of stanzas make up this poem?
Quatrains

Sestets

Tercets

Couplets
6 What does "sift" most closely mean here?
Dirty

Fall

Sicken

Split
7 What does "blench" mean?
Belch

Flinch

Fall

Crush
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 dangerous landscape representing illness and death

It is a paradisal space representing heaven

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

It is a harsh, strange landscape representing old age
10 The phrase "Nobody tells me anything" is an instance of which of the following?
Simile

Understatement

Personification

Hyperbole
11 Which poetic form does "The Mountain" resemble?
The haiku

The villanelle

The sestina

The sonnet
12 In what year was "The Mountain" first published?
1884

1928

1952

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

Metonymy

Personification

Simile
14 What does "impenetrable" mean?
Impossible to contain

Incapable of thought

Impossible to get through

Intimidatingly beautiful
15 Where does the speaker live?
This isn't stated in the poem

London

Brazil

Massachusetts
16 What does "clambering" mean?
Climbing

Cooking

Struggling

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

"They say it is my fault"

"stars go fly their kites."

"An open book confronts me"
18 Who is the poem's speaker?
An older man looking back on his life

A young man addressing his beloved

An unidentified elderly person

A young woman imagining her old age
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 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 argument with her daughter about living together
20 In which magazine did this poem first appear?
Poetry

The Paris Review

The New Yorker

Time
21 What does "demarcation" mean?
Tarnish

Vacation

Disagreement

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

Assonance

Alliteration

End rhyme
23 Which of the following best describes this poem's tone?
Serene

Anxious

Resigned

Jolly
24 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
AABB CCDD

ABADACAD

ABABAB CDCDCD EF

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

Iambic pentameter

Spondaic monometer

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

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