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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the poem "Roosters" describe?
(a) People's positive reaction to a rooster crowing.
(b) A silent rooster.
(c) People's negative reaction to a rooster crowing.
(d) A rooster that crows at midday.

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

3. What is involved in the resolution of Four Poems?
(a) Separation.
(b) A decision to wed.
(c) Divorce.
(d) Realization.

4. What is described in "Love Lies Sleeping"?
(a) Riding on a train.
(b) Waking in a house.
(c) Riding on a plane.
(d) Waking in a hotel.

5. What is the tone of the Four Poems?
(a) Entirely removed.
(b) Objective.
(c) Subjective and personal.
(d) Subjective yet removed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Bishop grow up?

2. Why does Bishop love the sea?

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

4. What literary devices does Bishop employ in the poems in North and South?

5. In what city are many of the poems in North and South set?

(see the answer key)

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