Man-Moth Quizzes

Man-Moth Quiz

1 The Man-Moth's tear is compared to what?
A puddle of rainwater

A vial of poison

A glass of wine

An underground spring
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 man cursed to live in a moth's body by night

He is a man who can turn into a moth

He is a species of moth that lives among humans
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 work's rhyme scheme abruptly shifts

The speaker begins using the second person
5 Bishop compares the Man-Moth's habit of keeping his hands in his pockets to what?
A person using mufflers

A mouse entering a hole

A child hiding from a bully

A person being buried
6 Which best describes the Man-Moth?
Empathetic

Unrelenting

Cruel

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

Personification

Metaphor

Metonymy
8 What does the word "palms," as used in this poem, mean?
A part of the hand

Conceals with the hand

To put aside or procrastinate

A type of tree
9 What gift does the Man-Moth offer others?
A tear

The third rail

His wings

The moon
10 Who is the speaker?
The Man

The Man-Moth's daughter

The Man-Moth

An unidentified omniscient individual
11 What does the word "draught" mean?
Attempt

Think

Climb

Drink
12 How many stanzas make up this poem?
3

8

6

4
13 Which of the following is a major theme of this work?
Animal cruelty

Poetry

Loneliness

Parent-child relationships
14 Which sound produces assonance in the phrase "travels backwards"?
There is no assonance in this phrase

A sounds

V sounds

S sounds
15 The third rail is most plausibly a metaphor for what?
Marriage

Addiction

Religion

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

Erudite

Lamenting

Joyous
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

Metaphor

Onomatopoeia
19 The Man-Moth's eye is metaphorically compared to what?
The night

The tunnel

The moon

The lake
20 Where is this poem set?
New York

Rio de Janeiro

A fictional small mountain town

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

To fly or flutter

The front of a building

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

The phases of the moon

A winding river

The subway's tunnels
23 What does the word "susceptibility" mean?
Caution

Unease

Vulnerability

Suspicion
24 In what year was this poem published?
1946

1997

1928

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

An extinct moth species

A child's drawing

A superhero movie

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