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"

"bird-calls / dribble"

"I start for a second"

The poem contains no metaphors
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?
9

6

4

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

Alliteration

Assonance

Verbal irony
4 What does "staggeringly" mean in this context?
In a stumbling manner

Unbelievably

With emphatic movements

Drunkenly
5 What types of stanzas make up this poem?
Couplets

Quatrains

Sestets

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

Fall

Split

Dirty
7 What does "blench" mean?
Crush

Belch

Fall

Flinch
8 Which of the following is a refrain?
"Nobody tells me anything."

"I am growing deaf."

"The claws are lost somewhere."

"Tell me how old I am."
9 Which best describes the extended metaphor of the mountain enviroment?
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 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?
Personification

Understatement

Hyperbole

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

The haiku

The villanelle

The sonnet
12 In what year was "The Mountain" first published?
1928

1952

1884

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

Metonymy

Personification

Simile
14 What does "impenetrable" mean?
Incapable of thought

Intimidatingly beautiful

Impossible to contain

Impossible to get through
15 Where does the speaker live?
Brazil

London

Massachusetts

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

Climbing

Cooking

Confusing
17 Which of the following is NOT an example of personification?
"stars go fly their kites."

"An open book confronts me"

"They say it is my fault"

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

An unidentified elderly person

A young woman imagining her old age

A young man addressing his beloved
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 struggle to maintain dignity and comfort in old age

It is the speaker's attempt to reach the top of the mountain

It is the speaker's discussion with her past self as she grows old
20 In which magazine did this poem first appear?
Time

The New Yorker

Poetry

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?
Assonance

Onomatopoeia

End rhyme

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

Serene

Jolly

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

ABABAB CDCDCD EF

It has no regular rhyme scheme

AABB CCDD
25 What is the poem's meter?
Though the poem has rhythmic patterns, it has no regular meter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic hexameter

Spondaic monometer

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