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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect do the lights have on the city in "Night City"?
(a) It is festive.
(b) It is commercialized.
(c) It is romantic.
(d) It looks as if it is on fire.

2. Why does the toad in "Giant Toad" pity himself?
(a) He is large and ugly.
(b) He is large and helpless.
(c) He is large and alone.
(d) He is large and lame.

3. How does the family react to the poet in "Manuelzinho"?
(a) Steals her money and candy.
(b) Gives her money and candy.
(c) Accepts her but refuses money and candy.
(d) Avoids her but accepts money and candy.

4. What is one question the poet asks in "Questions of Travel"?
(a) Whether people have to travel because they have no imagination.
(b) Whether people who have a good imagination don't need to travel.
(c) Whether it is better to travel or just to use one's imagination.
(d) Whether travel can ruin one's sense of imagination.

5. What quality do the poems in North and South share?
(a) Humor.
(b) Similar subject matter.
(c) Attention to detail.
(d) Generalizations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bishop compare the winter wind to in "The Colder the Air"?

2. Where does the old man in "At the Fishhouses" bring his fish?

3. In which section does the poet arrive in Santos?

4. Who is traveling on a wagon in "Manners"?

5. What does Bishop mean when she asks Moore to "please come flying" in "Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore"?

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