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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Bishop meet Moore?
(a) When Bishop was an older woman.
(b) When Bishop was a middle-aged woman.
(c) When Bishop was a teenager.
(d) When Bishop was a young woman.

2. Who is traveling on a wagon in "Manners"?
(a) A girl and her grandfather.
(b) A girl and her father.
(c) A girl and her mother.
(d) A girl and her grandmother.

3. Who is the executioner in "The Hanging of the Mouse"?
(a) The cat.
(b) The dog.
(c) The rat.
(d) The raccoon.

4. What does it mean that some of Bishop's poems are "Uncollected"?
(a) The poet did not want them to be published.
(b) They were published in a variety of different works.
(c) They were only recently discovered.
(d) They were never published before.

5. The structure of the poem "Visits to St. Elizabeth's" is the same as what song?
(a) Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.
(b) I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.
(c) The Twelve Days of Christmas.
(d) This Old Man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the poet's initial reactions to Brazil?

2. What does Bishop compare the winter wind to in "The Colder the Air"?

3. To what does Bishop devote three poems to in North and South?

4. How long does the poet spend in Brazil?

5. Where did Marianne Moore work?

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