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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what is "The Riverman" based?
(a) Amazon Tales by Charles Wagley.
(b) Amazon Tales by Charles Bagley.
(c) Amazon Town by Charles Wagley.
(d) Amazon Town by Charles Bagley.

2. What is described in "Love Lies Sleeping"?
(a) Riding on a train.
(b) Waking in a house.
(c) Waking in a hotel.
(d) Riding on a plane.

3. What geographical locations do the poems in North and South portray?
(a) The United States, Canada, and Europe.
(b) The United States, Mexico, and Paris.
(c) The United States, Europe, and Brazil.
(d) Europe, Canada, and South America.

4. What does the man in "The Gentleman of Shalott" believe about being only part of a man?
(a) That half is enough.
(b) That only a whole man is enough.
(c) That one quarter is enough.
(d) That one third is enough.

5. What does the man in "Songs for a Colored Singer do?
(a) Drinks too much.
(b) Gambles too much.
(c) Fights too much.
(d) Cheats on her.

6. What does Bishop compare the winter wind to in "The Colder the Air"?
(a) A hunter.
(b) A huntress.
(c) A tigress.
(d) A tiger.

7. Who is the old man in "At the Fishhouses"?
(a) The poet's grandfather.
(b) The poet's grandfather's friend.
(c) The poet's father.
(d) The poet's father's friend.

8. How does Bishop tend to portray caves and shores in North and South?
(a) Symbolically.
(b) Objectively.
(c) Reverently.
(d) Dismissively.

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

10. How did the title "The Man-Moth" come to be?
(a) A newspaper misprint.
(b) A child's mispronunciation.
(c) Kafka's influence.
(d) Bishop's troubled relationships.

11. What is the subject of "The Gentleman of Shalott"?
(a) A man traveling on water.
(b) A man looking into a mirror.
(c) A man looking at his reflection in water.
(d) A man breaking a mirror.

12. Where did Bishop grow up?
(a) Calgary.
(b) New York.
(c) Paris.
(d) Nova Scotia.

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

14. Who is depicted in "Visits to St. Elizabeth's"?
(a) A Jew in a fur hat.
(b) A Catholic in a newspaper hat.
(c) A Jew in a newspaper hat.
(d) A Catholic in a fur hat.

15. What does the poet hope to gain by knowing the answers to her questions in "Letter to N.Y."?
(a) She wants to feel justified in her decision to leave New York.
(b) She wants New York to seem more real.
(c) She wants New York to seem less real.
(d) She wants to decide whether to move to New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the sheep in "Cape Breton"?

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

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

4. In what time of day does "At the Fishhouses" take place?

5. What is a running theme in many of the poems in Cold Spring?

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