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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Bishop grow up?
(a) Paris.
(b) Nova Scotia.
(c) New York.
(d) Calgary.

2. What is the tone of the Four Poems?
(a) Subjective yet removed.
(b) Entirely removed.
(c) Objective.
(d) Subjective and personal.

3. What does the viewer hear in "View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress"?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A brass band playing.
(c) An orchestra playing.
(d) A protest.

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

5. What does the poet hope to gain by knowing the answers to her questions in "Letter to N.Y."?
(a) She wants to feel justified in her decision to leave New York.
(b) She wants to decide whether to move to New York.
(c) She wants New York to seem less real.
(d) She wants New York to seem more real.

Short Answer Questions

1. What could the tone of the Four Poems indicate about the poet?

2. In what Southern state are some of the poems in North and South set?

3. What happens to the sheep in "Cape Breton"?

4. Where does the old man in "At the Fishhouses" bring his fish?

5. What effect does the tone have on the Four Poems?

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