1 What are "polliwogs"? Strong sea winds Nonsensical ideas Tadpoles Goats 2 How many stanzas are in this poem? 12 9 6 7 3 Which animals are NOT on the island with Crusoe? Birds Turtles Monkeys Goats 4 On which early novel is this poem based? Tristram Shandy Pamela Tom Jones Robinson Crusoe 5 To what does Crusoe compare the island's snails? Children Goats Guano Irises 6 Which of the following is NOT personified in this poem? The trousers The knife The waterspouts The volcanoes 7 Crusoe describes the volcanic craters as what? Parched Ravenous Anxious Longing 8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions? To Friday's family To the navy To his biographer To a museum 9 What form does this poem take? It follows no set form Ghazal Villanelle Sestina 10 In which collection did this poem first appear? The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe The Collected Works of Elizabeth Bishop One Art Geography III 11 Crusoe compares the waterspouts he watches to what? Flutes and knives Children and fairies Priests and chimneys Snakes and rainbows 12 What types of stanzas make up this poem? There is no single stanza type Sestets Quatrains Couplets 13 What is the poem's meter? Iambic pentameter It has no single meter but frequently uses iambic pentameter Iambic hexameter Anapestic pentameter 14 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? ABABCDCD It contains rhyme but follows no set scheme It contains no rhyme at all AABB CCDD 15 Which most closely fits Crusoe's description of the island? It is calm, quiet, and peaceful to the point of monotony It is thrilling and unpredictable It is boring but frightening It is scary at first but ultimately safe 16 What is the poem's climax? Crusoe and Friday's meeting The shipwreck Crusoe's rescue Crusoe's discovery of the parasol 17 Who is Friday? An indigenous man who Crusoe befriends An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship A member of the shipwrecked crew Crusoe's brother 18 This poem quotes a work by which writer? Aphra Behn Charles Dickens Robert Lowell William Wordsworth 19 Which is NOT a major theme of this poem? Feminism and womanhood Love and grief Isolation Memory 20 When was this poem written? 1976 1812 2004 1719 21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia? "bored" "crucifix" "Hiss" "stinging" 22 What is "basalt"? An eighteenth-century ship A poetic form An island formation A type of volcanic rock 23 Where is the speaker at the time of the poem's narration? England A deserted island A ship at sea Friday's house 24 What are "rollers" as described in this poem? A flock of birds A tool to curl hair Waves An alcoholic beverage 25 Crusoe compares the sound of turtles to which of the following? A teakettle A giant walking A drum A tree
