Death of a Naturalist Quizzes

Death of a Naturalist Quiz

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

A clump of rotting flax

Bluebottle larvae

Frogspawn
2 What does the character Miss Walls do in the poem?
She describes the life of the frogs.

She punishes the speaker for bringing frog tadpoles to class.

She rescues the speaker from the bullfrogs.

She pushes the speaker into the flax-dam.
3 What does the speaker take from the flax-dam?
A clump of rotting flax

Frogspawn

Several of the frogs

Bluebottle larvae
4 Who or what invades the flax-dam?
The dragonflies

The frogs

The British army

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

The frogs

The teachers at school

The speaker's parents
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 rotting flax

The saliva of the speaker's childhood dog

The jam the speaker eats at school

The frogspawn
8 What does the speaker compare to sails?
The window's curtains

Gauze

The frogs' dewlaps

The skirts of his teacher Miss Walls
9 When in the speaker's life does this poem take place?
In the speaker's projected future

In the present moment

In the speaker's childhood

In the speaker's imagination
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?
In jampots

At home

At school

All of the above
12 What does the speaker compare to gauze in the poem?
The sound of the bluebottles.

The texture of the frogspawn.

The screen in the window next to the frogspawn.

The sound of the croaking frogs.
13 How is the word "rank" used in this poem?
To describe how the speaker chooses his favorite creatures in the flax-dam.

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.
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

Seventy-five

Thirteen

Thirty-five
15 What is described as "[growing]...In the shade of the banks"?
The flax

The hedges

The frogspawn

The tadpoles
16 During which season does this poem most likely occur?
Fall

Winter

Spring

Summer
17 What happens at the end of the poem?
The speaker dips his hand into the frogspawn, and it clutches him.

The speaker is attacked by the frogs.

The speaker returns the tadpoles to the flax-dam.

The speaker flees the flax-dam.
18 How does the speaker feel at the end of the poem?
Shaken and exhausted

Ecstatic and invigorated

Apprehensive and curious

Disgusted and afraid
19 Which of the following is NOT a word used to describe the frogspawn?
Dots

Specks

Slobber

Slime
20 This poem is in iambic pentameter.
True

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

The bluebottles

The frogspawn

The schoolchildren
22 What sorts of bugs does the speaker see in the flax-dam?
Bluebottles, dragonflies, and butterflies

Water spiders, dragonflies, and beetles

Bluebottles, mosquitoes, and beetles

Moths, butterflies, and water spiders
23 Where is the cow dung that the speaker mentions in the second stanza?
The flax-dam

The speaker's backyard at home

The fields

In the schoolyard
24 What in this poem "sweltered in the punishing sun"?
The speaker

The flax-dam

The frogs

Miss Walls
25 What does the speaker make "jampotfuls" of?
Clotted water

Bluebottle larvae

Jam

Frogspawn

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