The Mountain (Elizabeth Bishop poem) Quizzes

The Mountain (Elizabeth Bishop poem) Quiz

1 Which of the following is an instance of metaphor?
"I start for a second"

The poem contains no metaphors

"bird-calls / dribble"

"Tell me how old I am"
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?
4

8

6

9
3 The phrase "fly their kites" contains which of the following?
Verbal irony

Sibilance

Alliteration

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

With emphatic movements

In a stumbling manner

Unbelievably
5 What types of stanzas make up this poem?
Sestets

Quatrains

Couplets

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

Split

Fall

Dirty
7 What does "blench" mean?
Flinch

Crush

Belch

Fall
8 Which of the following is a refrain?
"Tell me how old I am."

"Nobody tells me anything."

"I am growing deaf."

"The claws are lost somewhere."
9 Which best describes the extended metaphor of the mountain enviroment?
It is a dangerous landscape representing illness and death

It is a paradisal space representing heaven

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

It is a harsh, strange landscape representing old age
10 The phrase "Nobody tells me anything" is an instance of which of the following?
Simile

Understatement

Hyperbole

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?
1884

1996

1952

1928
13 The phrase "like cotton in my ears" is an instance of which of the following?
Simile

Metonymy

Personification

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

Incapable of thought

Impossible to contain

Intimidatingly beautiful
15 Where does the speaker live?
London

This isn't stated in the poem

Brazil

Massachusetts
16 What does "clambering" mean?
Cooking

Climbing

Confusing

Struggling
17 Which of the following is NOT an example of personification?
"the valleys stuff/impenetrable mists"

"stars go fly their kites."

"An open book confronts me"

"They say it is my fault"
18 Who is the poem's speaker?
An older man looking back on his life

A young man addressing his beloved

A young woman imagining her old age

An unidentified elderly person
19 Which best describes the poem's major conflict?
It is the speaker's argument with her daughter about living together

It is the speaker's discussion with her past self as she grows old

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?
Poetry

The New Yorker

The Paris Review

Time
21 What does "demarcation" mean?
Disagreement

Tarnish

Vacation

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

End rhyme

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia
23 Which of the following best describes this poem's tone?
Resigned

Serene

Jolly

Anxious
24 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABABAB CDCDCD EF

ABADACAD

AABB CCDD

It has no regular rhyme scheme
25 What is the poem's meter?
Spondaic monometer

Iambic hexameter

Iambic pentameter

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

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