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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 does Bishop compare the winter wind to in "The Colder the Air"?
(a) A tiger.
(b) A huntress.
(c) A tigress.
(d) A hunter.

2. What does Bishop mean when she asks Moore to "please come flying" in "Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore"?
(a) That Moore should run over to Bishop's place.
(b) That Moore should drive quickly across the Brooklyn Bridge.
(c) That Moore should come by plane.
(d) That Moore should drive quickly over the Manhattan Bridge.

3. What is the visitor's mood in "House Guest"?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Comical.
(c) Hopeless.
(d) Pleasant.

4. What is described in the poem "Paris, 7 A.M."?
(a) Observing a courtyard from an apartment window.
(b) Waking.
(c) Arriving in Paris.
(d) Riding a train.

5. In what time of day does "At the Fishhouses" take place?
(a) Morning.
(b) Evening.
(c) Noon.
(d) Afternoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man in "Songs for a Colored Singer do?

2. What types of fish does the old man in "At the Fishhouses" catch?

3. What does the poem "Roosters" describe?

4. What does Micucu's auntie do in "The Burglar of Babylon"?

5. Who is the executioner in "The Hanging of the Mouse"?

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