Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?
Nonsensical ideas

Strong sea winds

Goats

Tadpoles
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?
9

6

12

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

Turtles

Goats

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

Tristram Shandy

Robinson Crusoe

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

Children

Irises

Goats
6 Which of the following is NOT personified in this poem?
The volcanoes

The knife

The waterspouts

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

Ravenous

Parched

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

To his biographer

To the navy

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

Sestina

Ghazal

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

One Art

Geography III

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
11 Crusoe compares the waterspouts he watches to what?
Priests and chimneys

Snakes and rainbows

Flutes and knives

Children and fairies
12 What types of stanzas make up this poem?
Sestets

Quatrains

There is no single stanza type

Couplets
13 What is the poem's meter?
It has no single meter but frequently uses iambic pentameter

Anapestic pentameter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic hexameter
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 calm, quiet, and peaceful to the point of monotony

It is thrilling and unpredictable

It is scary at first but ultimately safe

It is boring but frightening
16 What is the poem's climax?
The shipwreck

Crusoe and Friday's meeting

Crusoe's discovery of the parasol

Crusoe's rescue
17 Who is Friday?
An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship

A member of the shipwrecked crew

Crusoe's brother

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

Charles Dickens

William Wordsworth

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

Memory

Love and grief

Feminism and womanhood
20 When was this poem written?
1719

2004

1812

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

"Hiss"

"bored"

"crucifix"
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?
Friday's house

A deserted island

England

A ship at sea
24 What are "rollers" as described in this poem?
An alcoholic beverage

Waves

A tool to curl hair

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

A tree

A teakettle

A giant walking

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