Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?
Strong sea winds

Tadpoles

Nonsensical ideas

Goats
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?
6

7

9

12
3 Which animals are NOT on the island with Crusoe?
Turtles

Birds

Monkeys

Goats
4 On which early novel is this poem based?
Pamela

Tristram Shandy

Tom Jones

Robinson Crusoe
5 To what does Crusoe compare the island's snails?
Goats

Irises

Guano

Children
6 Which of the following is NOT personified in this poem?
The knife

The trousers

The waterspouts

The volcanoes
7 Crusoe describes the volcanic craters as what?
Anxious

Longing

Parched

Ravenous
8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions?
To a museum

To the navy

To his biographer

To Friday's family
9 What form does this poem take?
It follows no set form

Ghazal

Sestina

Villanelle
10 In which collection did this poem first appear?
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Geography III

One Art

The Collected Works of Elizabeth Bishop
11 Crusoe compares the waterspouts he watches to what?
Children and fairies

Flutes and knives

Priests and chimneys

Snakes and rainbows
12 What types of stanzas make up this poem?
There is no single stanza type

Quatrains

Couplets

Sestets
13 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic hexameter

Anapestic pentameter

Iambic pentameter

It has no single meter but frequently uses iambic pentameter
14 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
It contains no rhyme at all

ABABCDCD

It contains rhyme but follows no set scheme

AABB CCDD
15 Which most closely fits Crusoe's description of the island?
It is boring but frightening

It is scary at first but ultimately safe

It is thrilling and unpredictable

It is calm, quiet, and peaceful to the point of monotony
16 What is the poem's climax?
Crusoe and Friday's meeting

Crusoe's discovery of the parasol

Crusoe's rescue

The shipwreck
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?
Charles Dickens

William Wordsworth

Aphra Behn

Robert Lowell
19 Which is NOT a major theme of this poem?
Love and grief

Isolation

Feminism and womanhood

Memory
20 When was this poem written?
1812

2004

1719

1976
21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
"bored"

"Hiss"

"stinging"

"crucifix"
22 What is "basalt"?
A type of volcanic rock

An eighteenth-century ship

An island formation

A poetic form
23 Where is the speaker at the time of the poem's narration?
A deserted island

England

Friday's house

A ship at sea
24 What are "rollers" as described in this poem?
A flock of birds

Waves

An alcoholic beverage

A tool to curl hair
25 Crusoe compares the sound of turtles to which of the following?
A giant walking

A drum

A tree

A teakettle

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