Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?

Strong sea winds

Goats

Tadpoles

Nonsensical ideas
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?

6

7

12

9
3 Which animals are NOT on the island with Crusoe?

Birds

Monkeys

Turtles

Goats
4 On which early novel is this poem based?

Robinson Crusoe

Tom Jones

Tristram Shandy

Pamela
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 volcanoes

The waterspouts

The knife
7 Crusoe describes the volcanic craters as what?

Ravenous

Longing

Parched

Anxious
8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions?

To the navy

To Friday's family

To a museum

To his biographer
9 What form does this poem take?

Sestina

Villanelle

Ghazal

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

Geography III

One Art

The Collected Works of Elizabeth Bishop

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?

There is no single stanza type

Couplets

Sestets

Quatrains
13 What is the poem's meter?

Iambic pentameter

Anapestic pentameter

It has no single meter but frequently uses iambic pentameter

Iambic hexameter
14 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

It contains rhyme but follows no set scheme

AABB CCDD

ABABCDCD

It contains no rhyme at all
15 Which most closely fits Crusoe's description of the island?

It is thrilling and unpredictable

It is boring but frightening

It is scary at first but ultimately safe

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

Crusoe's rescue

Crusoe's discovery of the parasol

The shipwreck

Crusoe and Friday's meeting
17 Who is Friday?

An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship

Crusoe's brother

A member of the shipwrecked crew

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

Charles Dickens

William Wordsworth

Robert Lowell

Aphra Behn
19 Which is NOT a major theme of this poem?

Feminism and womanhood

Love and grief

Memory

Isolation
20 When was this poem written?

2004

1812

1719

1976
21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?

"Hiss"

"bored"

"stinging"

"crucifix"
22 What is "basalt"?

An island formation

A poetic form

An eighteenth-century ship

A type of volcanic rock
23 Where is the speaker at the time of the poem's narration?

A deserted island

Friday's house

A ship at sea

England
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 drum

A tree

A giant walking

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