1 Who has died in the poem? The speaker The speaker's mother The speaker's cousin The King 2 Which of the following is a prominent motif in the poem? Trees Sleep Celestial bodies Cold 3 Where does the speaker think Arthur will go next? To bed upstairs To the frozen lake To join the royal court To be buried in the cemetery 4 Which best describes the speaker? Sad Ferocious Devastated Naive 5 Who shot the loon? Uncle Arthur Arthur The speaker's father The speaker 6 What is the poem's meter? Iambic hexameter It has no single consistent meter Trochaic pentameter Iambic pentameter 7 When does this poem evidently take place? The Tudor era The early Victorian era The 2010s The early twentieth century 8 What is the poem's structure? Five stanzas of ten lines each Two stanzas of fourteen lines each, followed by two stanzas of seven lines each Six stanzas of varied length Four stanzas of seven lines each 9 When was this poem first published in a book? 1965 1891 1978 1912 10 Which of the following colors appear as motifs? Blue and yellow Black and blue Red and white Black and white 11 The speaker uses a metaphor to compare a table to what? An open book A dinner plate A person's back A frozen lake 12 What is Nova Scotia? A Canadian provice A London neighborhood A town in Wales A city in the Midwestern U.S. 13 Which royal figure is NOT mentioned in the poem? Queen Victoria Princess Alexandra King George Queen Mary 14 The statement "Arthur's coffin was / a little frosted cake" is an instance of what? Hyperbole Personification Simile Metaphor 15 What is a loon? A shroud A mourning parent A funeral dirge A type of bird 16 Which of the following is a prominent theme of the poem? Art and music Childhood Christianity Nature 17 What does the flower most closely symbolize? Femininity and romance Death and purity Springtime Youth and life 18 Where does the poem take place? At a birthday party At a hospital At a wake At a burial 19 The lines "stood a stuffed loon / shot and stuffed" feature which of the following? Understatement Alliteration Simile Synecdoche 20 What does the word "chromograph" mean? Device used for playing recorded music Coffin Early telephone model Early type of color photograph 21 Who is the poem's speaker? A page in the British royal court A young child A dead woman The father of a dead child 22 In which season does this poem seemingly take place? Spring Winter Summer Fall 23 Who is Jack Frost? A minor biblical character A real-life childhood friend of Elizabeth Bishop A popular Victorian essayist A folkloric figure 24 What is ermine? An infant too young to walk A will A liquor commonly consumed in Nova Scotia A type of fur 25 Which of the following is a simile? "the red-eyed loon eyed it/from his white, frozen lake." "He was all white, like a doll" "They invited Arthur to be / the smallest page at court." "his eyes were red glass"
