Bogland Quizzes

Bogland Quiz

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

The eye of the Great Irish Elk

The fir trees

A bog
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

Butter

Cheese

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

Oak

Cherry

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

bogholes

oasis

butter
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 elk's skeleton

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

Over a hundred years

The speaker does not know

Two years
9 Who is the speaker?
An elderly farmer

A young girl

The speaker is unspecified

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

The tarn

The skeleton of a man

The unfenced country
11 What is described as "soft as pulp"?
The setting sun

The speaker's hands

The century-old butter

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

White

Green with mold

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

True

False
14 Where does this poem take place?
North America

England

Ireland

Antarctica
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.

True

False
18 What do "they" do with the skeleton of the Great Irish Elk?
They are shocked by how small it is

They ignore the finding

They put it together on display

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 cyclops' eye

The big sun

The wet center of the bogholes

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

The crusty top of the bogs

The butter

The cyclops' eye
22 Which of the following does this poem use?
A villanelle format

The first-person plural perspective

An a-b-a-b rhyme scheme

Iambic pentameter
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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