Bogland Quizzes

Bogland Quiz

1 What does the speaker refer to as a "cyclops' eye?"
The eye of the Great Irish Elk

The fir trees

A tarn

A bog
2 Which of the following is NOT dug out of the turf?
Tree trunks

Century-old butter

A skeleton of the Great Irish Elk

Coal
3 What does the speaker compare the ground to?
Milk

Butter

Cheese

Stone
4 What kind of trees are dug up out of the peat?
Cherry

Fir

Pine

Oak
5 "The _____ might be Atlantic seepage."
bogholes

oasis

butter

tarn
6 This poem is told from the first-person perspective.

True

False
7 What "keeps crusting/Between the sights of the sun"?
The bog

The elk's skeleton

The tree trunks

The speaker's eye
8 How old is the butter found in the peat?
Over a hundred years

Ten years

The speaker does not know

Two years
9 Who is the speaker?
A young girl

The speaker is unspecified

Heaney

An elderly farmer
10 What does the narrator compare "an astounding crate of air" to?
The tarn

The unfenced country

The Great Irish Elk's skeleton

The skeleton of a man
11 What is described as "soft as pulp"?
The fir trees dug out of the turf

The century-old butter

The speaker's hands

The setting sun
12 What color is the butter pulled out of the peat?
Murky brown

Black

Green with mold

White
13 The speaker describes men digging for coal in the bogland.
True

False
14 Where does this poem take place?
Ireland

Antarctica

England

North America
15 "Every layer they strip/Seems camped on before." The layers referred to here are layers in the bogs.

False

True
16 This poem celebrates the bogs of Ireland as an important natural resource.

False

True
17 This poem mentions several objects that are dug from where they were preserved in the bogs.
False

True
18 What do "they" do with the skeleton of the Great Irish Elk?
They put it together on display

They are shocked by how small it is

They ignore the finding

They bury it
19 What does the speaker say about prairies?
They are less useful than bogs

They are plentiful in Ireland

They slice the sun when it sets on the horizon

They might be Atlantic seepage
20 What in this poem is described as "bottomless"?
The speaker's fear

The wet center of the bogholes

The cyclops' eye

The big sun
21 What does the speaker refer to as "salty and white?"
The froth on the ocean

The crusty top of the bogs

The cyclops' eye

The butter
22 Which of the following does this poem use?
An a-b-a-b rhyme scheme

The first-person plural perspective

Iambic pentameter

A villanelle format
23 This poem takes place in the prairies of North America.
True

False
24 The bogs provide a very efficient energy source for the country's inhabitants.
True

False
25 "Our _______ keep striking/Inwards and downwards,/Every layer they strip/Seems camped on before."
fathers

pioneers

wives

soldiers

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