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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what Southern state are some of the poems in North and South set?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Texas.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Florida.

2. How does Bishop tend to portray caves and shores in North and South?
(a) Symbolically.
(b) Reverently.
(c) Dismissively.
(d) Objectively.

3. What is the subject of "The Gentleman of Shalott"?
(a) A man looking at his reflection in water.
(b) A man traveling on water.
(c) A man breaking a mirror.
(d) A man looking into a mirror.

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

5. What do several of the poems in North and South pay homage?
(a) Music.
(b) Water.
(c) Cities.
(d) Trees.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the poem "Roosters" describe?

5. What does the man in "The Gentleman of Shalott" believe about being only part of a man?

(see the answer key)

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