Man-Moth Quizzes

Man-Moth Quiz

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

An underground spring

A glass of wine

A puddle of rainwater

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

It has no set rhyme scheme

ABBA CDDC

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

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

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

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 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

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
5 Bishop compares the Man-Moth's habit of keeping his hands in his pockets to what?

A mouse entering a hole

A person using mufflers

A person being buried

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

Unrelenting

Empathetic

Creative

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

Metaphor

Simile

Personification

Metonymy
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?

His wings

A tear

The third rail

The moon
10 Who is the speaker?

An unidentified omniscient individual

The Man

The Man-Moth

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

Climb

Think

Drink

Attempt
12 How many stanzas make up this poem?

6

3

8

4
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"?

S sounds

A sounds

V sounds

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

Marriage

Religion

Discrimination

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

Erudite

Lamenting

Joyous

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

Assonance

Alliteration

Internal rhyme

Hyperbole
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 night

The moon

The tunnel

The lake
20 Where is this poem set?

A surreal, anonymous city

Rio de Janeiro

A fictional small mountain town

New York
21 What does the word "façade" mean?

The front of a building

To fly or flutter

Facial expression

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

A winding river

A swarm of insects

The subway's tunnels

The phases of the moon
23 What does the word "susceptibility" mean?

Caution

Suspicion

Unease

Vulnerability
24 In what year was this poem published?

1928

1946

1997

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

A superhero movie

A newspaper misprint

An extinct moth species

A child's drawing

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