Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?

Goats

Strong sea winds

Nonsensical ideas

Tadpoles
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?

12

6

9

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

Goats

Birds

Monkeys

Turtles
4 On which early novel is this poem based?

Tristram Shandy

Robinson Crusoe

Pamela

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

Irises

Guano

Children

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

The waterspouts

The trousers

The knife

The volcanoes
7 Crusoe describes the volcanic craters as what?

Longing

Ravenous

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?

Ghazal

Sestina

It follows no set form

Villanelle
10 In which collection did this poem first appear?

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

The Collected Works of Elizabeth Bishop

One Art

Geography III
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

Sestets

Couplets

There is no single stanza type
13 What is the poem's meter?

It has no single meter but frequently uses iambic pentameter

Anapestic pentameter

Iambic hexameter

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

AABB CCDD

It contains rhyme but follows no set scheme

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 thrilling and unpredictable

It is scary at first but ultimately safe

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

Crusoe's rescue

Crusoe and Friday's meeting

Crusoe's discovery of the parasol

The shipwreck
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?

Feminism and womanhood

Isolation

Memory

Love and grief
20 When was this poem written?

1976

1719

2004

1812
21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?

"bored"

"Hiss"

"stinging"

"crucifix"
22 What is "basalt"?

An island formation

An eighteenth-century ship

A poetic form

A type of volcanic rock
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?

A tool to curl hair

Waves

An alcoholic beverage

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

A tree

A giant walking

A teakettle

A drum

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