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?
Coal

A skeleton of the Great Irish Elk

Century-old butter

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

Stone

Milk

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

Fir

Oak

Cherry
5 "The _____ might be Atlantic seepage."
butter

oasis

tarn

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 bog

The speaker's eye
8 How old is the butter found in the peat?
Over a hundred years

Two years

Ten years

The speaker does not know
9 Who is the speaker?
The speaker is unspecified

A young girl

Heaney

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

The Great Irish Elk's skeleton

The skeleton of a man

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

The setting sun

The century-old butter

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

Murky brown

Black

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

False

True
14 Where does this poem take place?
Antarctica

North America

Ireland

England
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 bury it

They ignore the finding

They are shocked by how small it is

They put it together on display
19 What does the speaker say about prairies?
They are plentiful in Ireland

They are less useful than bogs

They might be Atlantic seepage

They slice the sun when it sets on the horizon
20 What in this poem is described as "bottomless"?
The cyclops' eye

The big sun

The speaker's fear

The wet center of the bogholes
21 What does the speaker refer to as "salty and white?"
The froth on the ocean

The cyclops' eye

The crusty top of the bogs

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

fathers

wives

pioneers

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