Man-Moth Quizzes

Man-Moth Quiz

1 The Man-Moth's tear is compared to what?
A vial of poison

An underground spring

A puddle of rainwater

A glass of wine
2 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABBA CDDC

It has no set rhyme scheme

AABBAAC

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

He is a man who can turn into a moth

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

He is a shy half-man, half-moth creature
4 Which of the following occurs in the work's final stanza?
The poem shifts into the Man-Moth's point of view

Bishop begins to repeat lines from the first stanza

The speaker begins using the second person

The work's rhyme scheme abruptly shifts
5 Bishop compares the Man-Moth's habit of keeping his hands in his pockets to what?
A person being buried

A mouse entering a hole

A person using mufflers

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

Cruel

Unrelenting

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

Simile

Personification

Metaphor
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's daughter

An unidentified omniscient individual

The Man

The Man-Moth
11 What does the word "draught" mean?
Climb

Attempt

Drink

Think
12 How many stanzas make up this poem?
6

8

3

4
13 Which of the following is a major theme of this work?
Parent-child relationships

Animal cruelty

Poetry

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

There is no assonance in this phrase

A sounds

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

Addiction

Marriage

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

Dreamlike

Erudite

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

Alliteration

Hyperbole

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

Understatement

Onomatopoeia

Metaphor
19 The Man-Moth's eye is metaphorically compared to what?
The moon

The night

The lake

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

A fictional small mountain town

New York

A surreal, anonymous city
21 What does the word "façade" mean?
Facial expression

The front of a building

To fly or flutter

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

The phases of the moon

The subway's tunnels

A winding river
23 What does the word "susceptibility" mean?
Unease

Vulnerability

Suspicion

Caution
24 In what year was this poem published?
1997

1953

1928

1946
25 What, according to Bishop's note, inspired this poem?
An extinct moth species

A child's drawing

A superhero movie

A newspaper misprint

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