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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what format are the poems in Rainy Season; Sub Tropics written?
(a) Prose poetry.
(b) Prose.
(c) Sonnets.
(d) Free verse.

2. What does the poet do with items on her desk in "12 O'Clock News"?
(a) She writes stories in which they come to life.
(b) She writes news stories about them.
(c) She hides them around the room for a child to find.
(d) She re-arranges them while watching the news.

3. What effect does the tone have on the Four Poems?
(a) It makes them specific to the two people portrayed in them.
(b) It makes the reader less sympathetic to the plight of the people portrayed in them.
(c) It makes them more universal.
(d) It makes the reader more sympathetic to the plight of the people portrayed in them.

4. What does the moose do in "The Moose"?
(a) Causes the bus to crash.
(b) Attacks.
(c) Causes the train to crash.
(d) Stands in the road, then steps aside.

5. How does Bishop look at life in the poems in Uncollected Work and Geography III?
(a) Regretfully.
(b) Humorously.
(c) Hopefully.
(d) Bitterly.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Letter to N.Y.," whom is the poet addressing?

2. What does Bishop's uncommon vocabulary reflect about her settings?

3. What were the poet's initial reactions to Brazil?

4. To what topic do many of Bishop's observations in the poems in North and South pertain?

5. What has Bishop arranged in "Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore"?

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