First Death in Nova Scotia Quizzes

First Death in Nova Scotia Quiz

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

The speaker

The speaker's mother

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

Sleep

Celestial bodies

Trees
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?
Devastated

Naive

Sad

Ferocious
5 Who shot the loon?
The speaker's father

Uncle Arthur

The speaker

Arthur
6 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic pentameter

Trochaic pentameter

It has no single consistent meter

Iambic hexameter
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

Six stanzas of varied length

Two stanzas of fourteen lines each, followed by two stanzas of seven lines each

Four stanzas of seven lines each
9 When was this poem first published in a book?
1965

1978

1891

1912
10 Which of the following colors appear as motifs?
Black and blue

Black and white

Blue and yellow

Red and white
11 The speaker uses a metaphor to compare a table to what?
An open book

A dinner plate

A frozen lake

A person's back
12 What is Nova Scotia?
A Canadian provice

A city in the Midwestern U.S.

A London neighborhood

A town in Wales
13 Which royal figure is NOT mentioned in the poem?
Queen Victoria

Queen Mary

Princess Alexandra

King George
14 The statement "Arthur's coffin was / a little frosted cake" is an instance of what?
Metaphor

Personification

Simile

Hyperbole
15 What is a loon?
A funeral dirge

A type of bird

A shroud

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

Nature

Art and music

Childhood
17 What does the flower most closely symbolize?
Youth and life

Death and purity

Springtime

Femininity and romance
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?
Understatement

Alliteration

Synecdoche

Simile
20 What does the word "chromograph" mean?
Early type of color photograph

Early telephone model

Coffin

Device used for playing recorded music
21 Who is the poem's speaker?
A young child

A dead woman

The father of a dead child

A page in the British royal court
22 In which season does this poem seemingly take place?
Spring

Winter

Fall

Summer
23 Who is Jack Frost?
A real-life childhood friend of Elizabeth Bishop

A minor biblical character

A folkloric figure

A popular Victorian essayist
24 What is ermine?
A liquor commonly consumed in Nova Scotia

A type of fur

A will

An infant too young to walk
25 Which of the following is a simile?
"They invited Arthur to be / the smallest page at court."

"He was all white, like a doll"

"his eyes were red glass"

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

First Death in Nova Scotia Questions and Answers

The Question and Answer section for First Death in Nova Scotia is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.

Ask Your Own Question

Study Guide for First Death in Nova Scotia

First Death in Nova Scotia study guide contains a biography of Elizabeth Bishop, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

Read the Study Guide for First Death in Nova Scotia…