Man-Moth Quizzes

Man-Moth Quiz

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

A glass of wine

A vial of poison

A puddle of rainwater
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 shy half-man, half-moth creature

He is a man who can turn into a 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
4 Which of the following occurs in the work's final stanza?
The speaker begins using the second person

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

Bishop begins to repeat lines from the first stanza

The work's rhyme scheme abruptly shifts
5 Bishop compares the Man-Moth's habit of keeping his hands in his pockets to what?
A mouse entering a hole

A person being buried

A person using mufflers

A child hiding from a bully
6 Which best describes the Man-Moth?
Cruel

Creative

Empathetic

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

Personification

Metonymy

Simile
8 What does the word "palms," as used in this poem, mean?
A type of tree

To put aside or procrastinate

Conceals with the hand

A part of the hand
9 What gift does the Man-Moth offer others?
The moon

The third rail

His wings

A tear
10 Who is the speaker?
An unidentified omniscient individual

The Man-Moth's daughter

The Man

The Man-Moth
11 What does the word "draught" mean?
Climb

Think

Attempt

Drink
12 How many stanzas make up this poem?
4

3

8

6
13 Which of the following is a major theme of this work?
Animal cruelty

Parent-child relationships

Poetry

Loneliness
14 Which sound produces assonance in the phrase "travels backwards"?
A sounds

V sounds

S sounds

There is no assonance in this phrase
15 The third rail is most plausibly a metaphor for what?
Addiction

Discrimination

Marriage

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

Dreamlike

Joyous

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

Internal rhyme

Alliteration

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

Personification

Metaphor

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

The lake

The tunnel

The night
20 Where is this poem set?
A surreal, anonymous city

A fictional small mountain town

New York

Rio de Janeiro
21 What does the word "façade" mean?
To fly or flutter

Facial expression

The front of a building

A type of party
22 Bishop compares the Man-Moth's recurring dreams to what?
The subway's tunnels

A swarm of insects

The phases of the moon

A winding river
23 What does the word "susceptibility" mean?
Vulnerability

Unease

Caution

Suspicion
24 In what year was this poem published?
1953

1928

1946

1997
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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