Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?

Goats

Tadpoles

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?

Turtles

Birds

Monkeys

Goats
4 On which early novel is this poem based?

Tristram Shandy

Pamela

Robinson Crusoe

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

Guano

Irises

Children

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

The knife

The trousers

The volcanoes

The waterspouts
7 Crusoe describes the volcanic craters as what?

Parched

Ravenous

Longing

Anxious
8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions?

To the navy

To his biographer

To a museum

To Friday's family
9 What form does this poem take?

It follows no set form

Sestina

Ghazal

Villanelle
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?

Children and fairies

Snakes and rainbows

Priests and chimneys

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

Sestets

There is no single stanza type

Couplets

Quatrains
13 What is the poem's meter?

Iambic pentameter

It has no single meter but frequently uses iambic pentameter

Iambic hexameter

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

AABB CCDD

ABABCDCD

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 thrilling and unpredictable

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

It is boring but frightening
16 What is the poem's climax?

Crusoe's rescue

The shipwreck

Crusoe's discovery of the parasol

Crusoe and Friday's meeting
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?

Aphra Behn

Charles Dickens

William Wordsworth

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

Isolation

Love and grief

Memory

Feminism and womanhood
20 When was this poem written?

2004

1976

1719

1812
21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?

"Hiss"

"crucifix"

"stinging"

"bored"
22 What is "basalt"?

A type of volcanic rock

A poetic form

An eighteenth-century ship

An island formation
23 Where is the speaker at the time of the poem's narration?

A deserted island

Friday's house

A ship at sea

England
24 What are "rollers" as described in this poem?

Waves

A tool to curl hair

A flock of birds

An alcoholic beverage
25 Crusoe compares the sound of turtles to which of the following?

A tree

A giant walking

A teakettle

A drum

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