Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?
Strong sea winds

Tadpoles

Nonsensical ideas

Goats
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?
6

9

12

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

Turtles

Birds

Monkeys
4 On which early novel is this poem based?
Tristram Shandy

Tom Jones

Robinson Crusoe

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

Irises

Guano

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

The knife

The volcanoes

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

Anxious

Ravenous

Parched
8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions?
To his biographer

To Friday's family

To a museum

To the navy
9 What form does this poem take?
Ghazal

Villanelle

Sestina

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

The Collected Works of Elizabeth Bishop

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Geography III
11 Crusoe compares the waterspouts he watches to what?
Priests and chimneys

Flutes and knives

Children and fairies

Snakes and rainbows
12 What types of stanzas make up this poem?
Quatrains

Sestets

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

AABB CCDD

ABABCDCD

It contains rhyme but follows no set scheme
15 Which most closely fits Crusoe's description of the island?
It is thrilling and unpredictable

It is scary at first but ultimately safe

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

It is boring but frightening
16 What is the poem's climax?
Crusoe and Friday's meeting

Crusoe's discovery of the parasol

The shipwreck

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?
Robert Lowell

Charles Dickens

William Wordsworth

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

Isolation

Love and grief

Memory
20 When was this poem written?
1812

2004

1719

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

"bored"

"stinging"

"crucifix"
22 What is "basalt"?
An island formation

An eighteenth-century ship

A type of volcanic rock

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

A ship at sea

England

A deserted island
24 What are "rollers" as described in this poem?
Waves

A flock of birds

A tool to curl hair

An alcoholic beverage
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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