Bogland Quizzes

Bogland Quiz

1 What does the speaker refer to as a "cyclops' eye?"
The eye of the Great Irish Elk

The fir trees

A tarn

A bog
2 Which of the following is NOT dug out of the turf?
Century-old butter

Tree trunks

Coal

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?
Pine

Cherry

Fir

Oak
5 "The _____ might be Atlantic seepage."
oasis

tarn

butter

bogholes
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 tree trunks

The elk's skeleton
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

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 skeleton of a man

The unfenced country
11 What is described as "soft as pulp"?
The century-old butter

The setting sun

The speaker's hands

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

Murky brown

Black

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

False

True
14 Where does this poem take place?
Antarctica

England

North America

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.

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 are shocked by how small it is

They bury it
19 What does the speaker say about prairies?
They are less useful than bogs

They might be Atlantic seepage

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 cyclops' eye

The speaker's fear

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 froth on the ocean

The butter

The cyclops' eye
22 Which of the following does this poem use?
Iambic pentameter

A villanelle format

An a-b-a-b rhyme scheme

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."
fathers

soldiers

pioneers

wives

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