Death of a Naturalist Quizzes

Death of a Naturalist Quiz

1 What does the speaker take from the flax-dam?
Several of the frogs

Frogspawn

Bluebottle larvae

A clump of rotting flax
2 What does the character Miss Walls do in the poem?
She pushes the speaker into the flax-dam.

She describes the life of the frogs.

She punishes the speaker for bringing frog tadpoles to class.

She rescues the speaker from the bullfrogs.
3 What does the speaker take from the flax-dam?
Several of the frogs

Bluebottle larvae

A clump of rotting flax

Frogspawn
4 Who or what invades the flax-dam?
The British army

The dragonflies

The frogs

The tadpoles
5 Who are "the great slime kings?"
The speaker and his friends

The frogs

The speaker's parents

The teachers at school
6 The frogspawn turns green in the sun and brown in the rain.

False

True
7 What does "the thick warm slobber" refer to?
The frogspawn

The saliva of the speaker's childhood dog

The rotting flax

The jam the speaker eats at school
8 What does the speaker compare to sails?
The frogs' dewlaps

Gauze

The skirts of his teacher Miss Walls

The window's curtains
9 When in the speaker's life does this poem take place?
In the speaker's childhood

In the speaker's imagination

In the speaker's projected future

In the present moment
10 The title of this poem refers to the death of someone the speaker cares deeply about.

True

False
11 Where does the speaker keep the frogspawn?
At school

At home

In jampots

All of the above
12 What does the speaker compare to gauze in the poem?
The screen in the window next to the frogspawn.

The sound of the bluebottles.

The sound of the croaking frogs.

The texture of the frogspawn.
13 How is the word "rank" used in this poem?
To describe the foul smell of the fertilizer in the fields.

To describe how Miss Walls's class is organized.

To compare the frogs to an army.

To describe how the speaker chooses his favorite creatures in the flax-dam.
14 How old is the speaker of the poem currently (at the time of writing this poem)?
The speaker's current age is not specified

Thirty-five

Seventy-five

Thirteen
15 What is described as "[growing]...In the shade of the banks"?
The tadpoles

The hedges

The frogspawn

The flax
16 During which season does this poem most likely occur?
Winter

Fall

Summer

Spring
17 What happens at the end of the poem?
The speaker is attacked by the frogs.

The speaker flees the flax-dam.

The speaker dips his hand into the frogspawn, and it clutches him.

The speaker returns the tadpoles to the flax-dam.
18 How does the speaker feel at the end of the poem?
Apprehensive and curious

Disgusted and afraid

Shaken and exhausted

Ecstatic and invigorated
19 Which of the following is NOT a word used to describe the frogspawn?
Specks

Slime

Slobber

Dots
20 This poem is in iambic pentameter.

True

False
21 What produces the "bass chorus" that the speaker mentions?
The bluebottles

The bullfrogs

The frogspawn

The schoolchildren
22 What sorts of bugs does the speaker see in the flax-dam?
Moths, butterflies, and water spiders

Water spiders, dragonflies, and beetles

Bluebottles, mosquitoes, and beetles

Bluebottles, dragonflies, and butterflies
23 Where is the cow dung that the speaker mentions in the second stanza?
The fields

The speaker's backyard at home

In the schoolyard

The flax-dam
24 What in this poem "sweltered in the punishing sun"?
The speaker

Miss Walls

The frogs

The flax-dam
25 What does the speaker make "jampotfuls" of?
Clotted water

Bluebottle larvae

Frogspawn

Jam

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