Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?
Goats

Nonsensical ideas

Tadpoles

Strong sea winds
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?
9

12

6

7
3 Which animals are NOT on the island with Crusoe?
Turtles

Monkeys

Birds

Goats
4 On which early novel is this poem based?
Tom Jones

Robinson Crusoe

Pamela

Tristram Shandy
5 To what does Crusoe compare the island's snails?
Goats

Children

Guano

Irises
6 Which of the following is NOT personified in this poem?
The knife

The volcanoes

The trousers

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

Parched

Ravenous

Longing
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?
Ghazal

Villanelle

Sestina

It follows no set form
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?
Priests and chimneys

Flutes and knives

Snakes and rainbows

Children and fairies
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?
It contains rhyme but follows no set scheme

AABB CCDD

It contains no rhyme at all

ABABCDCD
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 discovery of the parasol

Crusoe and Friday's meeting

The shipwreck

Crusoe's rescue
17 Who is Friday?
An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship

Crusoe's brother

An indigenous man who Crusoe befriends

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

Charles Dickens

Aphra Behn

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

Feminism and womanhood

Memory

Love and grief
20 When was this poem written?
1812

1976

1719

2004
21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
"crucifix"

"bored"

"Hiss"

"stinging"
22 What is "basalt"?
An island formation

A type of volcanic rock

An eighteenth-century ship

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

A ship at sea

Friday's house

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

A tool to curl hair

An alcoholic beverage

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

A drum

A giant walking

A teakettle

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