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1 What are "polliwogs"?

Strong sea winds

Nonsensical ideas

Tadpoles

Goats
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?

7

6

9

12
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

Robinson Crusoe

Tom Jones
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 volcanoes

The waterspouts
7 Crusoe describes the volcanic craters as what?

Parched

Longing

Ravenous

Anxious
8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions?

To his biographer

To the navy

To Friday's family

To a museum
9 What form does this poem take?

Villanelle

Ghazal

Sestina

It follows no set form
10 In which collection did this poem first appear?

Geography III

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

The Collected Works of Elizabeth Bishop

One Art
11 Crusoe compares the waterspouts he watches to what?

Children and fairies

Priests and chimneys

Snakes and rainbows

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

Quatrains

Couplets

Sestets

There is no single stanza type
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?

AABB CCDD

ABABCDCD

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 boring but frightening

It is scary at first but ultimately safe

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

It is thrilling and unpredictable
16 What is the poem's climax?

The shipwreck

Crusoe's rescue

Crusoe's discovery of the parasol

Crusoe and Friday's meeting
17 Who is Friday?

A member of the shipwrecked crew

Crusoe's brother

An indigenous man who Crusoe befriends

An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship
18 This poem quotes a work by which writer?

William Wordsworth

Aphra Behn

Charles Dickens

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

1719

2004

1976
21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?

"bored"

"stinging"

"Hiss"

"crucifix"
22 What is "basalt"?

An island formation

A type of volcanic rock

An eighteenth-century ship

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

England

A ship at sea

A deserted island

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

Waves

An alcoholic beverage

A tool to curl hair

A flock of birds
25 Crusoe compares the sound of turtles to which of the following?

A teakettle

A tree

A giant walking

A drum

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