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"

"I start for a second"

"bird-calls / dribble"

The poem contains no metaphors
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?
4

9

6

8
3 The phrase "fly their kites" contains which of the following?
Verbal irony

Alliteration

Sibilance

Assonance
4 What does "staggeringly" mean in this context?
Unbelievably

Drunkenly

In a stumbling manner

With emphatic movements
5 What types of stanzas make up this poem?
Couplets

Quatrains

Tercets

Sestets
6 What does "sift" most closely mean here?
Sicken

Fall

Split

Dirty
7 What does "blench" mean?
Flinch

Crush

Fall

Belch
8 Which of the following is a refrain?
"The claws are lost somewhere."

"Tell me how old I am."

"I am growing deaf."

"Nobody tells me anything."
9 Which best describes the extended metaphor of the mountain enviroment?
It is a harsh, strange landscape representing old age

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

It is a paradisal space representing heaven

It is a dangerous landscape representing illness and death
10 The phrase "Nobody tells me anything" is an instance of which of the following?
Hyperbole

Understatement

Simile

Personification
11 Which poetic form does "The Mountain" resemble?
The sonnet

The villanelle

The haiku

The sestina
12 In what year was "The Mountain" first published?
1952

1996

1928

1884
13 The phrase "like cotton in my ears" is an instance of which of the following?
Metaphor

Personification

Metonymy

Simile
14 What does "impenetrable" mean?
Impossible to get through

Incapable of thought

Intimidatingly beautiful

Impossible to contain
15 Where does the speaker live?
London

This isn't stated in the poem

Brazil

Massachusetts
16 What does "clambering" mean?
Confusing

Struggling

Cooking

Climbing
17 Which of the following is NOT an example of personification?
"They say it is my fault"

"An open book confronts me"

"stars go fly their kites."

"the valleys stuff/impenetrable mists"
18 Who is the poem's speaker?
An older man looking back on his life

A young woman imagining her old age

An unidentified elderly person

A young man addressing his beloved
19 Which best describes the poem's major conflict?
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

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
20 In which magazine did this poem first appear?
The New Yorker

The Paris Review

Poetry

Time
21 What does "demarcation" mean?
Tarnish

Division

Vacation

Disagreement
22 The phrase "deepest demarcation" is an instance of which of the following?
Assonance

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

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

Resigned

Jolly

Serene
24 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABADACAD

It has no regular rhyme scheme

ABABAB CDCDCD EF

AABB CCDD
25 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic pentameter

Spondaic monometer

Iambic hexameter

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

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