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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is traveling on a wagon in "Manners"?
(a) A girl and her grandfather.
(b) A girl and her grandmother.
(c) A girl and her father.
(d) A girl and her mother.

2. Where did Bishop grow up?
(a) Nova Scotia.
(b) New York.
(c) Calgary.
(d) Paris.

3. What type of language does Bishop employ in "Songs for a Colored Singer"?
(a) Slang.
(b) Uncultured.
(c) Haughty.
(d) Refined.

4. What does the man in "Songs for a Colored Singer do?
(a) Gambles too much.
(b) Drinks too much.
(c) Cheats on her.
(d) Fights too much.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bishop display towards Moore in "Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore"?

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

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

4. What does the poet first recognize in "In the Waiting Room"?

5. What is involved in the resolution of Four Poems?

(see the answer key)

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