Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?
Nonsensical ideas

Tadpoles

Strong sea winds

Goats
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?
6

9

7

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

Turtles

Birds

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

Robinson Crusoe

Tristram Shandy

Tom Jones
5 To what does Crusoe compare the island's snails?
Children

Irises

Guano

Goats
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?
Longing

Parched

Anxious

Ravenous
8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions?
To the navy

To his biographer

To Friday's family

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

It follows no set form

Ghazal

Sestina
10 In which collection did this poem first appear?
The Collected Works of Elizabeth Bishop

Geography III

One Art

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
11 Crusoe compares the waterspouts he watches to what?
Children and fairies

Snakes and rainbows

Priests and chimneys

Flutes and knives
12 What types of stanzas make up this poem?
Quatrains

There is no single stanza type

Sestets

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

Anapestic pentameter

Iambic hexameter

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

AABB CCDD

It contains rhyme but follows no set scheme

It contains no rhyme at all
15 Which most closely fits Crusoe's description of the island?
It is scary at first but ultimately safe

It is thrilling and unpredictable

It is calm, quiet, and peaceful to the point of monotony

It is boring but frightening
16 What is the poem's climax?
Crusoe's discovery of the parasol

Crusoe and Friday's meeting

Crusoe's rescue

The shipwreck
17 Who is Friday?
A member of the shipwrecked crew

An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship

Crusoe's brother

An indigenous man who Crusoe befriends
18 This poem quotes a work by which writer?
Aphra Behn

William Wordsworth

Charles Dickens

Robert Lowell
19 Which is NOT a major theme of this poem?
Isolation

Memory

Feminism and womanhood

Love and grief
20 When was this poem written?
1976

1812

1719

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

"crucifix"

"stinging"

"Hiss"
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?
England

A deserted island

A ship at sea

Friday's house
24 What are "rollers" as described in this poem?
Waves

A flock of birds

An alcoholic beverage

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

A giant walking

A tree

A teakettle

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