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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are two sounds the poet appreciates in "Questions of Travel"?
(a) Rain and frogs.
(b) Wooden clogs and a bird's song.
(c) Wind and roosters.
(d) Tap shoes and a cricket's chirp.

3. Where did the poem "Sunday at Key West" originally appear?
(a) In a newspaper.
(b) In an anthology.
(c) In a letter to Bishop's landlady.
(d) In a letter to Marianne Moore.

4. What color are the Brazilian warehouses?
(a) Black or white.
(b) Black or gray.
(c) White or gray.
(d) Pink of blue.

5. In what time of day does "At the Fishhouses" take place?
(a) Noon.
(b) Evening.
(c) Afternoon.
(d) Morning.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the viewer see in "View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress?

3. What does the older character teach the younger in "Manners"?

4. In "Large Bad Picture," how does Bishop portray the flying birds?

5. In what format are the poems in Rainy Season; Sub Tropics written?

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