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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 Bishop display towards Moore in "Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore"?
(a) Friendship and reverence.
(b) A desire to meet her.
(c) Criticism.
(d) A superior attitude.

2. What quality do the poems in North and South share?
(a) Attention to detail.
(b) Similar subject matter.
(c) Humor.
(d) Generalizations.

3. Who is the old man in "At the Fishhouses"?
(a) The poet's father.
(b) The poet's grandfather's friend.
(c) The poet's father's friend.
(d) The poet's grandfather.

4. When did Bishop meet Moore?
(a) When Bishop was a middle-aged woman.
(b) When Bishop was a young woman.
(c) When Bishop was an older woman.
(d) When Bishop was a teenager.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the poem "Roosters" describe?

2. To what does Bishop devote three poems to in North and South?

3. What is a running theme in many of the poems in Cold Spring?

4. What is the subject of "The Gentleman of Shalott"?

5. What happens in "A Miracle for Breakfast"?

(see the answer key)

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