Bogland Quizzes

Bogland Quiz

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

The fir trees

The eye of the Great Irish Elk

A tarn
2 Which of the following is NOT dug out of the turf?
A skeleton of the Great Irish Elk

Coal

Century-old butter

Tree trunks
3 What does the speaker compare the ground to?
Milk

Cheese

Stone

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

Fir

Cherry

Pine
5 "The _____ might be Atlantic seepage."
butter

bogholes

oasis

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

True

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

The elk's skeleton

The speaker's eye

The bog
8 How old is the butter found in the peat?
Two years

Over a hundred years

Ten years

The speaker does not know
9 Who is the speaker?
The speaker is unspecified

An elderly farmer

A young girl

Heaney
10 What does the narrator compare "an astounding crate of air" to?
The Great Irish Elk's skeleton

The skeleton of a man

The unfenced country

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

The setting sun

The speaker's hands

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

Murky brown

Green with mold

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

False
14 Where does this poem take place?
England

Ireland

North America

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

True

False
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 ignore the finding

They are shocked by how small it is

They bury it
19 What does the speaker say about prairies?
They are plentiful in Ireland

They might be Atlantic seepage

They slice the sun when it sets on the horizon

They are less useful than bogs
20 What in this poem is described as "bottomless"?
The wet center of the bogholes

The speaker's fear

The cyclops' eye

The big sun
21 What does the speaker refer to as "salty and white?"
The crusty top of the bogs

The cyclops' eye

The froth on the ocean

The butter
22 Which of the following does this poem use?
The first-person plural perspective

A villanelle format

Iambic pentameter

An a-b-a-b rhyme scheme
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

wives

soldiers

pioneers

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