Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?

Tadpoles

Strong sea winds

Nonsensical ideas

Goats
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?

7

9

12

6
3 Which animals are NOT on the island with Crusoe?

Monkeys

Birds

Goats

Turtles
4 On which early novel is this poem based?

Robinson Crusoe

Tristram Shandy

Tom Jones

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

Children

Guano

Irises

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

The volcanoes

The waterspouts

The knife

The trousers
7 Crusoe describes the volcanic craters as what?

Longing

Ravenous

Anxious

Parched
8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions?

To Friday's family

To the navy

To a museum

To his biographer
9 What form does this poem take?

Sestina

It follows no set form

Ghazal

Villanelle
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?

Snakes and rainbows

Priests and chimneys

Children and fairies

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?

Anapestic pentameter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic hexameter

It has no single meter but frequently uses 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 and Friday's meeting

Crusoe's rescue

Crusoe's discovery of the parasol

The shipwreck
17 Who is Friday?

An indigenous man who Crusoe befriends

An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship

A member of the shipwrecked crew

Crusoe's brother
18 This poem quotes a work by which writer?

Robert Lowell

William Wordsworth

Charles Dickens

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

Love and grief

Feminism and womanhood

Isolation

Memory
20 When was this poem written?

1976

2004

1812

1719
21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?

"bored"

"stinging"

"crucifix"

"Hiss"
22 What is "basalt"?

A poetic form

A type of volcanic rock

An island formation

An eighteenth-century ship
23 Where is the speaker at the time of the poem's narration?

A ship at sea

A deserted island

Friday's house

England
24 What are "rollers" as described in this poem?

A tool to curl hair

Waves

A flock of birds

An alcoholic beverage
25 Crusoe compares the sound of turtles to which of the following?

A giant walking

A drum

A tree

A teakettle

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