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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what does the poet express a need in "Sonnet"?
(a) Darkness.
(b) Music.
(c) Water.
(d) Light.

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

3. Who cries for the mouse in "The Hanging of the Mouse"?
(a) The cat.
(b) The praying mantis.
(c) The bird.
(d) The mouse's wife.

4. Where did the poem "Sunday at Key West" originally appear?
(a) In a letter to Bishop's landlady.
(b) In a newspaper.
(c) In a letter to Marianne Moore.
(d) In an anthology.

5. What does "Jeronimo's House" describe?
(a) A barn.
(b) A large house.
(c) A tiny house.
(d) A dog house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Bishop grow up?

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

3. Who do the characters pick up in "Manners"?

4. How does Bishop begin the section Geography III?

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

(see the answer key)

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