Bogland Quizzes

Bogland Quiz

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

The eye of the Great Irish Elk

A tarn

A bog

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

Tree trunks

A skeleton of the Great Irish Elk

Century-old butter

Coal
3 What does the speaker compare the ground to?

Stone

Milk

Butter

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

Oak

Fir

Cherry

Pine
5 "The _____ might be Atlantic seepage."

butter

tarn

bogholes

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

False

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

The speaker's eye

The bog

The elk's skeleton

The tree trunks
8 How old is the butter found in the peat?

Ten years

The speaker does not know

Over a hundred years

Two years
9 Who is the speaker?

Heaney

An elderly farmer

A young girl

The speaker is unspecified
10 What does the narrator compare "an astounding crate of air" to?

The unfenced country

The skeleton of a man

The tarn

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

The century-old butter

The fir trees dug out of the turf

The setting sun

The speaker's hands
12 What color is the butter pulled out of the peat?

Black

White

Murky brown

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

True

False
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.

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 put it together on display

They bury it

They ignore the finding

They are shocked by how small it is
19 What does the speaker say about prairies?

They are less useful than bogs

They slice the sun when it sets on the horizon

They might be Atlantic seepage

They are plentiful in Ireland
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 crusty top of the bogs

The cyclops' eye

The froth on the ocean

The butter
22 Which of the following does this poem use?

Iambic pentameter

An a-b-a-b rhyme scheme

A villanelle format

The first-person plural perspective
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."

soldiers

pioneers

wives

fathers

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