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?
Tree trunks

Century-old butter

Coal

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

Stone

Cheese

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

Cherry

Oak

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

tarn

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 tree trunks

The bog

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

Two years

Over a hundred years

The speaker does not know
9 Who is the speaker?
A young girl

Heaney

An elderly farmer

The speaker is unspecified
10 What does the narrator compare "an astounding crate of air" to?
The Great Irish Elk's skeleton

The unfenced country

The tarn

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

The century-old butter

The speaker's hands

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

White

Murky brown

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

True
14 Where does this poem take place?
North America

Antarctica

England

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.
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 are shocked by how small it is

They put it together on display

They ignore the finding

They bury it
19 What does the speaker say about prairies?
They might be Atlantic seepage

They are plentiful in Ireland

They are less useful than bogs

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

The wet center of the bogholes

The speaker's fear

The big sun
21 What does the speaker refer to as "salty and white?"
The cyclops' eye

The crusty top of the bogs

The froth on the ocean

The butter
22 Which of the following does this poem use?
Iambic pentameter

An a-b-a-b rhyme scheme

The first-person plural perspective

A villanelle format
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.
False

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

soldiers

pioneers

fathers

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