Bogland Quizzes

Bogland Quiz

1 What does the speaker refer to as a "cyclops' eye?"

A tarn

The eye of the Great Irish Elk

A bog

The fir trees
2 Which of the following is NOT dug out of the turf?

Century-old butter

A skeleton of the Great Irish Elk

Tree trunks

Coal
3 What does the speaker compare the ground to?

Milk

Stone

Cheese

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

Fir

Pine

Oak

Cherry
5 "The _____ might be Atlantic seepage."

oasis

bogholes

butter

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

False

True
7 What "keeps crusting/Between the sights of the sun"?

The tree trunks

The speaker's eye

The bog

The elk's skeleton
8 How old is the butter found in the peat?

Ten years

Two years

The speaker does not know

Over a hundred years
9 Who is the speaker?

A young girl

The speaker is unspecified

An elderly farmer

Heaney
10 What does the narrator compare "an astounding crate of air" to?

The unfenced country

The skeleton of a man

The Great Irish Elk's skeleton

The tarn
11 What is described as "soft as pulp"?

The speaker's hands

The setting sun

The fir trees dug out of the turf

The century-old butter
12 What color is the butter pulled out of the peat?

Black

Murky brown

White

Green with mold
13 The speaker describes men digging for coal in the bogland.

False

True
14 Where does this poem take place?

Ireland

North America

Antarctica

England
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.

True

False
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 bury it

They put it together on display

They are shocked by how small it is

They ignore the finding
19 What does the speaker say about prairies?

They are less useful than bogs

They might be Atlantic seepage

They slice the sun when it sets on the horizon

They are plentiful in Ireland
20 What in this poem is described as "bottomless"?

The big sun

The speaker's fear

The wet center of the bogholes

The cyclops' eye
21 What does the speaker refer to as "salty and white?"

The butter

The froth on the ocean

The cyclops' eye

The crusty top of the bogs
22 Which of the following does this poem use?

The first-person plural perspective

An a-b-a-b rhyme scheme

A villanelle format

Iambic pentameter
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.

False

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

fathers

pioneers

wives

soldiers

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