Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?
Nonsensical ideas

Tadpoles

Strong sea winds

Goats
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?
7

6

9

12
3 Which animals are NOT on the island with Crusoe?
Turtles

Goats

Monkeys

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?
Guano

Children

Irises

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

The knife

The waterspouts

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

Ravenous

Parched

Longing
8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions?
To a museum

To the navy

To Friday's family

To his biographer
9 What form does this poem take?
Villanelle

Sestina

Ghazal

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

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

The Collected Works of Elizabeth Bishop

Geography III
11 Crusoe compares the waterspouts he watches to what?
Children and fairies

Flutes and knives

Priests and chimneys

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

Quatrains

There is no single stanza type

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

Iambic hexameter

Anapestic pentameter

It has no single meter but frequently uses iambic pentameter
14 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
It contains rhyme but follows no set scheme

It contains no rhyme at all

AABB CCDD

ABABCDCD
15 Which most closely fits Crusoe's description of the island?
It is boring but frightening

It is thrilling and unpredictable

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

It is scary at first but ultimately safe
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

Crusoe's brother

An indigenous man who Crusoe befriends

An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship
18 This poem quotes a work by which writer?
Charles Dickens

Robert Lowell

William Wordsworth

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

Isolation

Love and grief

Feminism and womanhood
20 When was this poem written?
1812

2004

1976

1719
21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
"Hiss"

"bored"

"crucifix"

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

An island formation

A type of volcanic rock

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

Friday's house

A ship at sea

A deserted island
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 drum

A tree

A teakettle

A giant walking

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