The Mountain (Elizabeth Bishop poem) Quizzes

The Mountain (Elizabeth Bishop poem) Quiz

1 Which of the following is an instance of metaphor?

The poem contains no metaphors

"Tell me how old I am"

"I start for a second"

"bird-calls / dribble"
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?

9

6

4

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

Assonance

Alliteration

Verbal irony

Sibilance
4 What does "staggeringly" mean in this context?

With emphatic movements

In a stumbling manner

Unbelievably

Drunkenly
5 What types of stanzas make up this poem?

Quatrains

Sestets

Couplets

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

Split

Sicken

Fall

Dirty
7 What does "blench" mean?

Belch

Crush

Flinch

Fall
8 Which of the following is a refrain?

"Nobody tells me anything."

"I am growing deaf."

"Tell me how old I am."

"The claws are lost somewhere."
9 Which best describes the extended metaphor of the mountain enviroment?

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

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

Personification

Hyperbole

Understatement

Simile
11 Which poetic form does "The Mountain" resemble?

The sonnet

The haiku

The villanelle

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

1952

1928

1884

1996
13 The phrase "like cotton in my ears" is an instance of which of the following?

Metonymy

Personification

Metaphor

Simile
14 What does "impenetrable" mean?

Intimidatingly beautiful

Impossible to contain

Incapable of thought

Impossible to get through
15 Where does the speaker live?

London

Massachusetts

Brazil

This isn't stated in the poem
16 What does "clambering" mean?

Confusing

Struggling

Cooking

Climbing
17 Which of the following is NOT an example of personification?

"the valleys stuff/impenetrable mists"

"They say it is my fault"

"An open book confronts me"

"stars go fly their kites."
18 Who is the poem's speaker?

An older man looking back on his life

A young woman imagining her old age

A young man addressing his beloved

An unidentified elderly person
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?

Time

Poetry

The New Yorker

The Paris Review
21 What does "demarcation" mean?

Division

Vacation

Disagreement

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

End rhyme

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

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

Serene

Resigned

Anxious

Jolly
24 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

It has no regular rhyme scheme

ABABAB CDCDCD EF

AABB CCDD

ABADACAD
25 What is the poem's meter?

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

Iambic hexameter

Spondaic monometer

Iambic pentameter

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