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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the singer do in "Songs for a Colored Singer?"
(a) Leaves her boyfriend.
(b) Stays with her boyfriend.
(c) Leaves her husband.
(d) Stays with her husband.

5. "Questions of Travel" is in what format?
(a) An answer to a single question.
(b) Question and answer.
(c) A debate.
(d) A list of meandering questions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Arrival at Santos" depict?

2. How did the title "The Man-Moth" come to be?

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

4. What is described in the poem "Paris, 7 A.M."?

5. What is "The Burglar of Babylon" about?

(see the answer key)

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