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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the singer do in "Songs for a Colored Singer?"
(a) Stays with her husband.
(b) Stays with her boyfriend.
(c) Leaves her boyfriend.
(d) Leaves her husband.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bishop tend to portray caves and shores in North and South?

2. When were the poems in North and South collected?

3. How did the title "The Man-Moth" come to be?

4. In "Large Bad Picture," how does Bishop portray the flying birds?

5. What does the poem "Roosters" describe?

(see the answer key)

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