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"

"Tell me how old I am"

"bird-calls / dribble"

The poem contains no metaphors
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?
8

9

4

6
3 The phrase "fly their kites" contains which of the following?
Alliteration

Sibilance

Verbal irony

Assonance
4 What does "staggeringly" mean in this context?
With emphatic movements

Unbelievably

In a stumbling manner

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

Tercets

Sestets

Couplets
6 What does "sift" most closely mean here?
Fall

Sicken

Split

Dirty
7 What does "blench" mean?
Belch

Fall

Crush

Flinch
8 Which of the following is a refrain?
"The claws are lost somewhere."

"I am growing deaf."

"Nobody tells me anything."

"Tell me how old I am."
9 Which best describes the extended metaphor of the mountain enviroment?
It is a paradisal space representing heaven

It is a dangerous landscape representing illness and death

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 sestina

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

1996

1884

1952
13 The phrase "like cotton in my ears" is an instance of which of the following?
Metaphor

Personification

Simile

Metonymy
14 What does "impenetrable" mean?
Intimidatingly beautiful

Impossible to contain

Incapable of thought

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

This isn't stated in the poem

Brazil

Massachusetts
16 What does "clambering" mean?
Confusing

Cooking

Climbing

Struggling
17 Which of the following is NOT an example of personification?
"They say it is my fault"

"stars go fly their kites."

"the valleys stuff/impenetrable mists"

"An open book confronts me"
18 Who is the poem's speaker?
A young man addressing his beloved

A young woman imagining her old age

An older man looking back on his life

An unidentified elderly person
19 Which best describes the poem's major conflict?
It is the speaker's attempt to reach the top of the mountain

It is the speaker's struggle to maintain dignity and comfort in old age

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
20 In which magazine did this poem first appear?
The New Yorker

The Paris Review

Time

Poetry
21 What does "demarcation" mean?
Vacation

Division

Tarnish

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

End rhyme

Assonance

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

Resigned

Serene

Anxious
24 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
AABB CCDD

ABADACAD

It has no regular rhyme scheme

ABABAB CDCDCD EF
25 What is the poem's meter?
Though the poem has rhythmic patterns, it has no regular meter

Iambic pentameter

Spondaic monometer

Iambic hexameter

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