Bogland Quizzes

Bogland Quiz

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

The eye of the Great Irish Elk

A tarn

A bog

The fir trees
2 Which of the following is NOT dug out of the turf?

A skeleton of the Great Irish Elk

Century-old butter

Coal

Tree trunks
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

Fir

Oak

Cherry
5 "The _____ might be Atlantic seepage."

bogholes

oasis

butter

tarn
6 This poem is told from the first-person perspective.

False

True
7 What "keeps crusting/Between the sights of the sun"?

The bog

The speaker's eye

The elk's skeleton

The tree trunks
8 How old is the butter found in the peat?

Over a hundred years

The speaker does not know

Ten years

Two years
9 Who is the speaker?

An elderly farmer

Heaney

A young girl

The speaker is unspecified
10 What does the narrator compare "an astounding crate of air" to?

The skeleton of a man

The tarn

The Great Irish Elk's skeleton

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

The fir trees dug out of the turf

The setting sun

The speaker's hands

The century-old butter
12 What color is the butter pulled out of the peat?

White

Green with mold

Black

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

False

True
14 Where does this poem take place?

Ireland

Antarctica

England

North America
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 ignore the finding

They are shocked by how small it is

They put it together on display

They bury it
19 What does the speaker say about prairies?

They slice the sun when it sets on the horizon

They are less useful than bogs

They might be Atlantic seepage

They are plentiful in Ireland
20 What in this poem is described as "bottomless"?

The big sun

The cyclops' eye

The speaker's fear

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

The crusty top of the bogs

The butter

The cyclops' eye

The froth on the ocean
22 Which of the following does this poem use?

A villanelle format

An a-b-a-b rhyme scheme

Iambic pentameter

The first-person plural perspective
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

wives

pioneers

soldiers

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