First Death in Nova Scotia Quizzes

First Death in Nova Scotia Quiz

1 Who has died in the poem?
The speaker's mother

The speaker

The speaker's cousin

The King
2 Which of the following is a prominent motif in the poem?
Sleep

Cold

Trees

Celestial bodies
3 Where does the speaker think Arthur will go next?
To the frozen lake

To be buried in the cemetery

To join the royal court

To bed upstairs
4 Which best describes the speaker?
Devastated

Naive

Ferocious

Sad
5 Who shot the loon?
The speaker

The speaker's father

Arthur

Uncle Arthur
6 What is the poem's meter?
Trochaic pentameter

Iambic hexameter

Iambic pentameter

It has no single consistent meter
7 When does this poem evidently take place?
The early Victorian era

The 2010s

The early twentieth century

The Tudor era
8 What is the poem's structure?
Two stanzas of fourteen lines each, followed by two stanzas of seven lines each

Five stanzas of ten lines each

Six stanzas of varied length

Four stanzas of seven lines each
9 When was this poem first published in a book?
1891

1912

1965

1978
10 Which of the following colors appear as motifs?
Black and white

Black and blue

Red and white

Blue and yellow
11 The speaker uses a metaphor to compare a table to what?
A person's back

A frozen lake

A dinner plate

An open book
12 What is Nova Scotia?
A Canadian provice

A town in Wales

A London neighborhood

A city in the Midwestern U.S.
13 Which royal figure is NOT mentioned in the poem?
Queen Victoria

Queen Mary

King George

Princess Alexandra
14 The statement "Arthur's coffin was / a little frosted cake" is an instance of what?
Hyperbole

Simile

Metaphor

Personification
15 What is a loon?
A type of bird

A shroud

A funeral dirge

A mourning parent
16 Which of the following is a prominent theme of the poem?
Nature

Christianity

Childhood

Art and music
17 What does the flower most closely symbolize?
Femininity and romance

Death and purity

Youth and life

Springtime
18 Where does the poem take place?
At a hospital

At a wake

At a birthday party

At a burial
19 The lines "stood a stuffed loon / shot and stuffed" feature which of the following?
Simile

Synecdoche

Understatement

Alliteration
20 What does the word "chromograph" mean?
Early telephone model

Coffin

Device used for playing recorded music

Early type of color photograph
21 Who is the poem's speaker?
The father of a dead child

A dead woman

A page in the British royal court

A young child
22 In which season does this poem seemingly take place?
Summer

Spring

Winter

Fall
23 Who is Jack Frost?
A folkloric figure

A popular Victorian essayist

A minor biblical character

A real-life childhood friend of Elizabeth Bishop
24 What is ermine?
A liquor commonly consumed in Nova Scotia

An infant too young to walk

A type of fur

A will
25 Which of the following is a simile?
"his eyes were red glass"

"They invited Arthur to be / the smallest page at court."

"the red-eyed loon eyed it/from his white, frozen lake."

"He was all white, like a doll"

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