Man-Moth Quizzes

Man-Moth Quiz

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

A puddle of rainwater

A glass of wine

An underground spring

A vial of poison
2 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

It has no set rhyme scheme

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

ABBA CDDC

AABBAAC
3 Which of the following best describes the Man-Moth?

He is a man cursed to live in a moth's body by night

He is a species of moth that lives among humans

He is a shy half-man, half-moth creature

He is a man who can turn into a moth
4 Which of the following occurs in the work's final stanza?

The work's rhyme scheme abruptly shifts

Bishop begins to repeat lines from the first stanza

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

The speaker begins using the second person
5 Bishop compares the Man-Moth's habit of keeping his hands in his pockets to what?

A person using mufflers

A child hiding from a bully

A person being buried

A mouse entering a hole
6 Which best describes the Man-Moth?

Unrelenting

Creative

Cruel

Empathetic
7 The Man-Moth's shadow is compared to a photographer's cloth through what?

Metonymy

Simile

Metaphor

Personification
8 What does the word "palms," as used in this poem, mean?

A part of the hand

A type of tree

Conceals with the hand

To put aside or procrastinate
9 What gift does the Man-Moth offer others?

The moon

His wings

A tear

The third rail
10 Who is the speaker?

The Man-Moth

An unidentified omniscient individual

The Man-Moth's daughter

The Man
11 What does the word "draught" mean?

Attempt

Climb

Think

Drink
12 How many stanzas make up this poem?

3

6

4

8
13 Which of the following is a major theme of this work?

Animal cruelty

Loneliness

Poetry

Parent-child relationships
14 Which sound produces assonance in the phrase "travels backwards"?

There is no assonance in this phrase

A sounds

V sounds

S sounds
15 The third rail is most plausibly a metaphor for what?

Discrimination

Addiction

Religion

Marriage
16 The poem's tone can best be described as:

Dreamlike

Erudite

Lamenting

Joyous
17 The phrase "he flits, / he flutters," is an instance of what?

Internal rhyme

Hyperbole

Alliteration

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

Metaphor

Onomatopoeia

Understatement

Personification
19 The Man-Moth's eye is metaphorically compared to what?

The lake

The tunnel

The night

The moon
20 Where is this poem set?

New York

Rio de Janeiro

A surreal, anonymous city

A fictional small mountain town
21 What does the word "façade" mean?

Facial expression

A type of party

The front of a building

To fly or flutter
22 Bishop compares the Man-Moth's recurring dreams to what?

The subway's tunnels

A winding river

The phases of the moon

A swarm of insects
23 What does the word "susceptibility" mean?

Suspicion

Unease

Vulnerability

Caution
24 In what year was this poem published?

1928

1997

1953

1946
25 What, according to Bishop's note, inspired this poem?

A newspaper misprint

A child's drawing

A superhero movie

An extinct moth species

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