Death of a Naturalist Quizzes

Death of a Naturalist Quiz

1 What does the speaker take from the flax-dam?

Several of the frogs

Bluebottle larvae

Frogspawn

A clump of rotting flax
2 What does the character Miss Walls do in the poem?

She rescues the speaker from the bullfrogs.

She punishes the speaker for bringing frog tadpoles to class.

She pushes the speaker into the flax-dam.

She describes the life of the frogs.
3 What does the speaker take from the flax-dam?

A clump of rotting flax

Bluebottle larvae

Frogspawn

Several of the frogs
4 Who or what invades the flax-dam?

The dragonflies

The frogs

The tadpoles

The British army
5 Who are "the great slime kings?"

The speaker's parents

The teachers at school

The frogs

The speaker and his friends
6 The frogspawn turns green in the sun and brown in the rain.

True

False
7 What does "the thick warm slobber" refer to?

The frogspawn

The rotting flax

The saliva of the speaker's childhood dog

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

The window's curtains

Gauze

The skirts of his teacher Miss Walls

The frogs' dewlaps
9 When in the speaker's life does this poem take place?

In the speaker's imagination

In the speaker's childhood

In the present moment

In the speaker's projected future
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

In jampots

At home

All of the above
12 What does the speaker compare to gauze in the poem?

The texture of the frogspawn.

The screen in the window next to the frogspawn.

The sound of the bluebottles.

The sound of the croaking frogs.
13 How is the word "rank" used in this poem?

To describe the foul smell of the fertilizer in the fields.

To compare the frogs to an army.

To describe how the speaker chooses his favorite creatures in the flax-dam.

To describe how Miss Walls's class is organized.
14 How old is the speaker of the poem currently (at the time of writing this poem)?

Thirty-five

The speaker's current age is not specified

Seventy-five

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

The flax

The tadpoles

The frogspawn

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

Spring

Winter

Summer

Fall
17 What happens at the end of the poem?

The speaker flees the flax-dam.

The speaker is attacked by the frogs.

The speaker returns the tadpoles to the flax-dam.

The speaker dips his hand into the frogspawn, and it clutches him.
18 How does the speaker feel at the end of the poem?

Disgusted and afraid

Apprehensive and curious

Ecstatic and invigorated

Shaken and exhausted
19 Which of the following is NOT a word used to describe the frogspawn?

Slime

Specks

Slobber

Dots
20 This poem is in iambic pentameter.

False

True
21 What produces the "bass chorus" that the speaker mentions?

The bluebottles

The frogspawn

The bullfrogs

The schoolchildren
22 What sorts of bugs does the speaker see in the flax-dam?

Moths, butterflies, and water spiders

Bluebottles, mosquitoes, and beetles

Bluebottles, dragonflies, and butterflies

Water spiders, dragonflies, and beetles
23 Where is the cow dung that the speaker mentions in the second stanza?

In the schoolyard

The speaker's backyard at home

The flax-dam

The fields
24 What in this poem "sweltered in the punishing sun"?

The frogs

The speaker

The flax-dam

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

Bluebottle larvae

Clotted water

Frogspawn

Jam

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