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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is described in the poem "Paris, 7 A.M."?
(a) Arriving in Paris.
(b) Riding a train.
(c) Waking.
(d) Observing a courtyard from an apartment window.

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

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

4. What is one question the poet asks in "Questions of Travel"?
(a) Whether it is better to travel or just to use one's imagination.
(b) Whether people who have a good imagination don't need to travel.
(c) Whether travel can ruin one's sense of imagination.
(d) Whether people have to travel because they have no imagination.

5. In what year does Questions of Travel begin?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1942.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Bishop tend to portray caves and shores in North and South?

3. What is the visitor's mood in "House Guest"?

4. Why does the toad in "Giant Toad" pity himself?

5. What is the subject of the three poems in Rainy Season; Sub Tropics?

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