Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?
Goats

Nonsensical ideas

Strong sea winds

Tadpoles
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?
6

12

9

7
3 Which animals are NOT on the island with Crusoe?
Goats

Birds

Turtles

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

Robinson Crusoe

Tom Jones

Tristram Shandy
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 knife

The waterspouts

The volcanoes

The trousers
7 Crusoe describes the volcanic craters as what?
Longing

Ravenous

Parched

Anxious
8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions?
To Friday's family

To his biographer

To the navy

To a museum
9 What form does this poem take?
Villanelle

Ghazal

It follows no set form

Sestina
10 In which collection did this poem first appear?
One Art

Geography III

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

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

Snakes and rainbows

Children and fairies

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

Couplets

Sestets

Quatrains
13 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic pentameter

Iambic hexameter

It has no single meter but frequently uses iambic pentameter

Anapestic pentameter
14 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
It contains rhyme but follows no set scheme

AABB CCDD

It contains no rhyme at all

ABABCDCD
15 Which most closely fits Crusoe's description of the island?
It is calm, quiet, and peaceful to the point of monotony

It is boring but frightening

It is thrilling and unpredictable

It is scary at first but ultimately safe
16 What is the poem's climax?
Crusoe's rescue

The shipwreck

Crusoe and Friday's meeting

Crusoe's discovery of the parasol
17 Who is Friday?
An indigenous man who Crusoe befriends

Crusoe's brother

An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship

A member of the shipwrecked crew
18 This poem quotes a work by which writer?
Aphra Behn

William Wordsworth

Robert Lowell

Charles Dickens
19 Which is NOT a major theme of this poem?
Feminism and womanhood

Isolation

Memory

Love and grief
20 When was this poem written?
1719

1976

1812

2004
21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
"Hiss"

"crucifix"

"bored"

"stinging"
22 What is "basalt"?
A poetic form

An island formation

A type of volcanic rock

An eighteenth-century ship
23 Where is the speaker at the time of the poem's narration?
A ship at sea

England

Friday's house

A deserted island
24 What are "rollers" as described in this poem?
A flock of birds

A tool to curl hair

An alcoholic beverage

Waves
25 Crusoe compares the sound of turtles to which of the following?
A drum

A giant walking

A teakettle

A tree

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