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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 New York to seem less real.
(c) She wants to decide whether to move to New York.
(d) She wants New York to seem more real.

2. What literary devices does Bishop employ in the poems in North and South?
(a) Symbolism and alliteration.
(b) Foreshadowing and mood.
(c) Metaphor and simile.
(d) Allusion and symbolism.

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

4. What is the title of one of the poems in Four Poems?
(a) "Talk."
(b) "Conversation."
(c) "Argument."
(d) "Discussion."

5. To what does the poet compare the long, relentless rain in "Questions of Travel"?
(a) A politician's speech.
(b) A preacher's nose.
(c) A politician's nose.
(d) A preacher's sermon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Bishop arranged in "Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore"?

2. What quality do the poems in North and South share?

3. What question does Bishop ponder in "Brazil, January 1, 1502"?

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

5. What is involved in the resolution of Four Poems?

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