Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?

Tadpoles

Goats

Strong sea winds

Nonsensical ideas
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?

7

12

9

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

Monkeys

Goats

Turtles

Birds
4 On which early novel is this poem based?

Pamela

Tristram Shandy

Robinson Crusoe

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

Goats

Children

Irises

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

The knife

The waterspouts

The volcanoes

The trousers
7 Crusoe describes the volcanic craters as what?

Parched

Longing

Anxious

Ravenous
8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions?

To the navy

To a museum

To Friday's family

To his biographer
9 What form does this poem take?

It follows no set form

Sestina

Villanelle

Ghazal
10 In which collection did this poem first appear?

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

One Art

The Collected Works of Elizabeth Bishop

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?

Sestets

Quatrains

Couplets

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

It has no single meter but frequently uses iambic pentameter

Iambic pentameter

Anapestic pentameter

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

ABABCDCD

AABB CCDD

It contains rhyme but follows no set scheme

It contains no rhyme at all
15 Which most closely fits Crusoe's description of the island?

It is scary at first but ultimately safe

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

It is boring but frightening

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

Crusoe's discovery of the parasol

Crusoe's rescue

The shipwreck

Crusoe and Friday's meeting
17 Who is Friday?

An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship

Crusoe's brother

A member of the shipwrecked crew

An indigenous man who Crusoe befriends
18 This poem quotes a work by which writer?

William Wordsworth

Aphra Behn

Charles Dickens

Robert Lowell
19 Which is NOT a major theme of this poem?

Memory

Feminism and womanhood

Love and grief

Isolation
20 When was this poem written?

2004

1812

1976

1719
21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?

"Hiss"

"crucifix"

"stinging"

"bored"
22 What is "basalt"?

An eighteenth-century ship

A poetic form

An island formation

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 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 drum

A tree

A giant walking

A teakettle

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