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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the man in "Songs for a Colored Singer do?
(a) Fights too much.
(b) Drinks too much.
(c) Gambles too much.
(d) Cheats on her.

2. What is a running theme in many of the poems in Cold Spring?
(a) Swimming.
(b) Weather.
(c) The sea.
(d) Spring.

3. Why does Bishop love the sea?
(a) It is both ever-changing and unchanging.
(b) It is ever-changing.
(c) She loves to swim.
(d) It is unchanging.

4. What effect does the tone have on the Four Poems?
(a) It makes them specific to the two people portrayed in them.
(b) It makes the reader more sympathetic to the plight of the people portrayed in them.
(c) It makes them more universal.
(d) It makes the reader less sympathetic to the plight of the people portrayed in them.

5. What does Bishop mean when she asks Moore to "please come flying" in "Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore"?
(a) That Moore should drive quickly across the Brooklyn Bridge.
(b) That Moore should drive quickly over the Manhattan Bridge.
(c) That Moore should come by plane.
(d) That Moore should run over to Bishop's place.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is described in "View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress"?

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

3. What does the tone of "Letter to N.Y." reveal about the friendship portrayed?

4. What makes the singer realize she is not dreaming in "Songs for a Colored Singer"?

5. What types of fish does the old man in "At the Fishhouses" catch?

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