Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?
Nonsensical ideas

Goats

Strong sea winds

Tadpoles
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?
9

12

7

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

Birds

Monkeys

Goats
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?
Guano

Goats

Irises

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

The knife

The trousers

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

Anxious

Parched

Ravenous
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

Villanelle

Ghazal
10 In which collection did this poem first appear?
Geography III

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

One Art

The Collected Works of Elizabeth Bishop
11 Crusoe compares the waterspouts he watches to what?
Priests and chimneys

Snakes and rainbows

Children and fairies

Flutes and knives
12 What types of stanzas make up this poem?
Sestets

There is no single stanza type

Quatrains

Couplets
13 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic hexameter

It has no single meter but frequently uses iambic pentameter

Iambic pentameter

Anapestic pentameter
14 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
ABABCDCD

AABB CCDD

It contains no rhyme at all

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

It is scary at first but ultimately safe

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

It is thrilling and unpredictable
16 What is the poem's climax?
Crusoe's rescue

Crusoe's discovery of the parasol

Crusoe and Friday's meeting

The shipwreck
17 Who is Friday?
Crusoe's brother

An indigenous man who Crusoe befriends

An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship

A member of the shipwrecked crew
18 This poem quotes a work by which writer?
Robert Lowell

Aphra Behn

William Wordsworth

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

Memory

Love and grief

Isolation
20 When was this poem written?
1719

2004

1812

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

"crucifix"

"stinging"

"bored"
22 What is "basalt"?
An eighteenth-century ship

An island formation

A poetic form

A type of volcanic rock
23 Where is the speaker at the time of the poem's narration?
A deserted island

Friday's house

England

A ship at sea
24 What are "rollers" as described in this poem?
A tool to curl hair

An alcoholic beverage

Waves

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

A teakettle

A tree

A giant walking

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