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

2. What do the characters in Rainy Season; Sub-Tropics symbolize?
(a) Effects of different locales on humans.
(b) Different human reactions to rain.
(c) Exaggerated human traits.
(d) That most people are lost.

3. When were the poems in North and South collected?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1959.

4. Who marches the mouse to his execution in "The Hanging of the Mouse"?
(a) Raccoons.
(b) Rats.
(c) Ants.
(d) Beetles.

5. What has Bishop arranged in "Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore"?
(a) For the weather to be nice when Moore visits.
(b) A reservation at a nice restaurant.
(c) Tickets for a show.
(d) A limo driver to take them shopping.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect do the lights have on the city in "Night City"?

2. How does Bishop look at life in the poems in Uncollected Work and Geography III?

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

4. What is one question the poet asks in "Questions of Travel"?

5. In "Cape Breton," what types of animals are staring out to sea?

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