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?
Century-old butter

Coal

Tree trunks

A skeleton of the Great Irish Elk
3 What does the speaker compare the ground to?
Butter

Stone

Cheese

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

Oak

Cherry

Pine
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 elk's skeleton

The bog

The tree trunks

The speaker's eye
8 How old is the butter found in the peat?
The speaker does not know

Over a hundred years

Two years

Ten years
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 tarn

The Great Irish Elk's skeleton

The unfenced country

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

The century-old butter

The speaker's hands

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

Black

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?
Ireland

North America

England

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.
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 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 might be Atlantic seepage

They are less useful than bogs

They slice the sun when it sets on the horizon

They are plentiful in Ireland
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 butter

The cyclops' eye

The crusty top of the bogs

The froth on the ocean
22 Which of the following does this poem use?
An a-b-a-b rhyme scheme

The first-person plural perspective

Iambic pentameter

A villanelle format
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."
fathers

soldiers

wives

pioneers

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