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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens in "A Miracle for Breakfast"?
(a) A man calls room service.
(b) A man has only coffee for breakfast.
(c) A man does not share his roll.
(d) A man scatters crumbs.

3. What does Bishop's uncommon vocabulary reflect about her settings?
(a) The foods consumed in these places.
(b) The customs and mannerisms of the people.
(c) The culture and the feel of the people.
(d) The way the people speak.

4. What does the viewer see in "View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress?
(a) A parade.
(b) Nothing.
(c) An orchestra playing.
(d) A brass band playing.

5. How does Bishop tend to characterize a person's feelings and moods in the poems in North and South?
(a) Objectively.
(b) Compassionately.
(c) Sentimentally.
(d) Subjectively.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When were the poems in North and South collected?

4. What does the poem "Roosters" describe?

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

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