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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What literary devices does Bishop employ in the poems in North and South?
(a) Allusion and symbolism.
(b) Foreshadowing and mood.
(c) Symbolism and alliteration.
(d) Metaphor and simile.

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

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

4. What does Bishop compare the winter wind to in "The Colder the Air"?
(a) A tigress.
(b) A hunter.
(c) A tiger.
(d) A huntress.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do several of the poems in North and South pay homage?

3. What type of language does Bishop employ in "Songs for a Colored Singer"?

4. What does the singer do in "Songs for a Colored Singer?"

5. What quality do the poems in North and South share?

(see the answer key)

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