Bogland Quizzes

Bogland Quiz

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

A tarn

The fir trees

A bog

The eye of the Great Irish Elk
2 Which of the following is NOT dug out of the turf?

Coal

Tree trunks

A skeleton of the Great Irish Elk

Century-old butter
3 What does the speaker compare the ground to?

Butter

Cheese

Stone

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

Pine

Cherry

Oak

Fir
5 "The _____ might be Atlantic seepage."

bogholes

butter

tarn

oasis
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

Two years

The speaker does not know

Over a hundred years
9 Who is the speaker?

The speaker is unspecified

A young girl

An elderly farmer

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

The tarn

The unfenced country

The Great Irish Elk's skeleton

The skeleton of a man
11 What is described as "soft as pulp"?

The fir trees dug out of the turf

The speaker's hands

The century-old butter

The setting sun
12 What color is the butter pulled out of the peat?

Murky brown

Black

Green with mold

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

True

False
14 Where does this poem take place?

North America

England

Antarctica

Ireland
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 ignore the finding

They put it together on display

They bury it

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

They might be Atlantic seepage

They slice the sun when it sets on the horizon

They are plentiful in Ireland

They are less useful than bogs
20 What in this poem is described as "bottomless"?

The speaker's fear

The cyclops' eye

The wet center of the bogholes

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?

A villanelle format

An a-b-a-b rhyme scheme

The first-person plural perspective

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.

True

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

soldiers

wives

pioneers

fathers

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