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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is similar about the language in the poems in North and South?
(a) It is general.
(b) It is rambling.
(c) It is prosaic.
(d) It is crisp and precise.

3. To what topic do many of Bishop's observations in the poems in North and South pertain?
(a) Geography.
(b) Nature.
(c) History.
(d) Politics.

4. What is described in the poem "Paris, 7 A.M."?
(a) Waking.
(b) Riding a train.
(c) Observing a courtyard from an apartment window.
(d) Arriving in Paris.

5. In what city are many of the poems in North and South set?
(a) London.
(b) New York.
(c) Rome.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Bishop devote three poems to in North and South?

2. What happens in "A Miracle for Breakfast"?

3. What geographical locations do the poems in North and South portray?

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

5. What does "Jeronimo's House" describe?

(see the answer key)

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