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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When were the poems in North and South collected?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1959.

3. How did the title "The Man-Moth" come to be?
(a) Bishop's troubled relationships.
(b) A child's mispronunciation.
(c) Kafka's influence.
(d) A newspaper misprint.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the poem "Roosters" describe?

2. What does "Jeronimo's House" reflect about the poet?

3. In what city are many of the poems in North and South set?

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

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

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