Man-Moth Quizzes

Man-Moth Quiz

1 The Man-Moth's tear is compared to what?
A glass of wine

A vial of poison

An underground spring

A puddle of rainwater
2 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABBA CDDC

It has no set rhyme scheme

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

AABBAAC
3 Which of the following best describes the Man-Moth?
He is a species of moth that lives among humans

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

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 speaker begins using the second person

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
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 mouse entering a hole

A person being buried
6 Which best describes the Man-Moth?
Unrelenting

Creative

Empathetic

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

Metonymy

Simile

Personification
8 What does the word "palms," as used in this poem, mean?
To put aside or procrastinate

A type of tree

A part of the hand

Conceals with the hand
9 What gift does the Man-Moth offer others?
The third rail

A tear

The moon

His wings
10 Who is the speaker?
The Man-Moth

The Man

An unidentified omniscient individual

The Man-Moth's daughter
11 What does the word "draught" mean?
Drink

Attempt

Climb

Think
12 How many stanzas make up this poem?
6

3

4

8
13 Which of the following is a major theme of this work?
Parent-child relationships

Poetry

Animal cruelty

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

S sounds

There is no assonance in this phrase

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

Marriage

Discrimination

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

Joyous

Erudite

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

Internal rhyme

Hyperbole

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

Onomatopoeia

Metaphor

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

The lake

The moon

The tunnel
20 Where is this poem set?
Rio de Janeiro

A surreal, anonymous city

A fictional small mountain town

New York
21 What does the word "façade" mean?
A type of party

The front of a building

To fly or flutter

Facial expression
22 Bishop compares the Man-Moth's recurring dreams to what?
A swarm of insects

The phases of the moon

A winding river

The subway's tunnels
23 What does the word "susceptibility" mean?
Unease

Vulnerability

Suspicion

Caution
24 In what year was this poem published?
1997

1946

1928

1953
25 What, according to Bishop's note, inspired this poem?
A child's drawing

An extinct moth species

A newspaper misprint

A superhero movie

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