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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bishop tend to portray caves and shores in North and South?
(a) Symbolically.
(b) Reverently.
(c) Objectively.
(d) Dismissively.

2. What is the subject of "The Gentleman of Shalott"?
(a) A man breaking a mirror.
(b) A man traveling on water.
(c) A man looking into a mirror.
(d) A man looking at his reflection in water.

3. What does the poem "Roosters" describe?
(a) A silent rooster.
(b) A rooster that crows at midday.
(c) People's negative reaction to a rooster crowing.
(d) People's positive reaction to a rooster crowing.

4. What is the poet surprised to learn?
(a) That Brazil does not have a flag.
(b) That the people of Brazil are poor.
(c) That Brazil has a flag.
(d) That the people of Brazil are well-off.

5. What is similar about the language in the poems in North and South?
(a) It is general.
(b) It is crisp and precise.
(c) It is rambling.
(d) It is prosaic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of language does Bishop employ in "Songs for a Colored Singer"?

2. On what is "The Riverman" based?

3. What do the poems in Four Poems describe?

4. What does the viewer hear in "View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress"?

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

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