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?

A skeleton of the Great Irish Elk

Century-old butter

Coal

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

Milk

Stone

Butter

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

Fir

Oak

Pine

Cherry
5 "The _____ might be Atlantic seepage."

tarn

butter

oasis

bogholes
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 elk's skeleton

The speaker's eye

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

The speaker does not know

Two years

Ten years

Over a hundred years
9 Who is the speaker?

The speaker is unspecified

Heaney

A young girl

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

The skeleton of a man

The tarn

The unfenced country

The Great Irish Elk's skeleton
11 What is described as "soft as pulp"?

The century-old butter

The speaker's hands

The setting sun

The fir trees dug out of the turf
12 What color is the butter pulled out of the peat?

Green with mold

Murky brown

White

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

False

True
14 Where does this poem take place?

North America

Antarctica

England

Ireland
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.

True

False
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 might be Atlantic seepage

They are plentiful in Ireland

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 cyclops' eye

The big sun

The speaker's fear
21 What does the speaker refer to as "salty and white?"

The butter

The cyclops' eye

The crusty top of the bogs

The froth on the ocean
22 Which of the following does this poem use?

Iambic pentameter

A villanelle format

The first-person plural perspective

An a-b-a-b rhyme scheme
23 This poem takes place in the prairies of North America.

False

True
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."

soldiers

fathers

pioneers

wives

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