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1 What are "polliwogs"?

Tadpoles

Nonsensical ideas

Goats

Strong sea winds
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?

6

12

7

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

Monkeys

Goats

Turtles

Birds
4 On which early novel is this poem based?

Pamela

Robinson Crusoe

Tristram Shandy

Tom Jones
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 waterspouts

The trousers

The volcanoes

The knife
7 Crusoe describes the volcanic craters as what?

Ravenous

Parched

Anxious

Longing
8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions?

To his biographer

To Friday's family

To the navy

To a museum
9 What form does this poem take?

Ghazal

It follows no set form

Villanelle

Sestina
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?

Flutes and knives

Children and fairies

Priests and chimneys

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

Sestets

Couplets

There is no single stanza type

Quatrains
13 What is the poem's meter?

It has no single meter but frequently uses iambic pentameter

Iambic hexameter

Anapestic pentameter

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

It contains no rhyme at all

It contains rhyme but follows no set scheme

ABABCDCD

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?

Crusoe and Friday's meeting

Crusoe's rescue

The shipwreck

Crusoe's discovery of the parasol
17 Who is Friday?

A member of the shipwrecked crew

An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship

An indigenous man who Crusoe befriends

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

William Wordsworth

Aphra Behn

Robert Lowell

Charles Dickens
19 Which is NOT a major theme of this poem?

Isolation

Feminism and womanhood

Love and grief

Memory
20 When was this poem written?

2004

1719

1812

1976
21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?

"crucifix"

"Hiss"

"bored"

"stinging"
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?

England

Friday's house

A deserted island

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

A flock of birds

A tool to curl hair

An alcoholic beverage

Waves
25 Crusoe compares the sound of turtles to which of the following?

A giant walking

A tree

A teakettle

A drum

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