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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 Bishop's uncommon vocabulary reflect about her settings?
(a) The culture and the feel of the people.
(b) The foods consumed in these places.
(c) The way the people speak.
(d) The customs and mannerisms of the people.

2. What could the tone of the Four Poems indicate about the poet?
(a) She prefers flowery language.
(b) She prefers to use a lot of detail.
(c) She prefers to include herself in her poems.
(d) She prefers concise language.

3. What does the man in "The Riverman" want to be?
(a) A hypnotist.
(b) A palm reader.
(c) A witch doctor.
(d) A fisherman.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the poet compare the long, relentless rain in "Questions of Travel"?

2. What is the poet surprised to learn?

3. What does the man in "Songs for a Colored Singer do?

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

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

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