Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?

Nonsensical ideas

Tadpoles

Goats

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

12

6

7

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

Birds

Monkeys

Turtles

Goats
4 On which early novel is this poem based?

Tristram Shandy

Pamela

Tom Jones

Robinson Crusoe
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 volcanoes

The knife

The trousers

The waterspouts
7 Crusoe describes the volcanic craters as what?

Ravenous

Anxious

Longing

Parched
8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions?

To Friday's family

To the navy

To his biographer

To a museum
9 What form does this poem take?

Sestina

Ghazal

It follows no set form

Villanelle
10 In which collection did this poem first appear?

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

One Art

Geography III

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

Priests and chimneys

Children and fairies

Snakes and rainbows

Flutes and knives
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?

Anapestic pentameter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic hexameter

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

AABB CCDD

It contains rhyme but follows no set scheme

It contains no rhyme at all

ABABCDCD
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 boring but frightening

It is scary at first but ultimately safe
16 What is the poem's climax?

Crusoe's discovery of the parasol

Crusoe's rescue

Crusoe and Friday's meeting

The shipwreck
17 Who is Friday?

A member of the shipwrecked crew

An indigenous man who Crusoe befriends

Crusoe's brother

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

Charles Dickens

William Wordsworth

Robert Lowell

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

Isolation

Feminism and womanhood

Memory

Love and grief
20 When was this poem written?

1976

1812

2004

1719
21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?

"bored"

"crucifix"

"stinging"

"Hiss"
22 What is "basalt"?

An island formation

A type of volcanic rock

A poetic form

An eighteenth-century ship
23 Where is the speaker at the time of the poem's narration?

Friday's house

England

A ship at sea

A deserted island
24 What are "rollers" as described in this poem?

Waves

A flock of birds

A tool to curl hair

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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