First Death in Nova Scotia Quizzes

First Death in Nova Scotia Quiz

1 Who has died in the poem?

The King

The speaker

The speaker's mother

The speaker's cousin
2 Which of the following is a prominent motif in the poem?

Trees

Sleep

Cold

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

To join the royal court

To the frozen lake

To be buried in the cemetery

To bed upstairs
4 Which best describes the speaker?

Naive

Devastated

Sad

Ferocious
5 Who shot the loon?

Arthur

Uncle Arthur

The speaker

The speaker's father
6 What is the poem's meter?

It has no single consistent meter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic hexameter

Trochaic pentameter
7 When does this poem evidently take place?

The early Victorian era

The Tudor era

The early twentieth century

The 2010s
8 What is the poem's structure?

Six stanzas of varied length

Five stanzas of ten lines each

Four stanzas of seven lines each

Two stanzas of fourteen lines each, followed by two stanzas of seven lines each
9 When was this poem first published in a book?

1965

1978

1912

1891
10 Which of the following colors appear as motifs?

Blue and yellow

Black and white

Red and white

Black and blue
11 The speaker uses a metaphor to compare a table to what?

A frozen lake

A person's back

An open book

A dinner plate
12 What is Nova Scotia?

A city in the Midwestern U.S.

A Canadian provice

A London neighborhood

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

King George

Queen Mary

Queen Victoria

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

Simile

Hyperbole

Metaphor

Personification
15 What is a loon?

A mourning parent

A shroud

A funeral dirge

A type of bird
16 Which of the following is a prominent theme of the poem?

Christianity

Childhood

Nature

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

Springtime

Death and purity

Femininity and romance

Youth and life
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

Alliteration

Understatement

Synecdoche
20 What does the word "chromograph" mean?

Coffin

Early type of color photograph

Early telephone model

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

The father of a dead child

A young child

A page in the British royal court

A dead woman
22 In which season does this poem seemingly take place?

Winter

Spring

Fall

Summer
23 Who is Jack Frost?

A popular Victorian essayist

A real-life childhood friend of Elizabeth Bishop

A folkloric figure

A minor biblical character
24 What is ermine?

An infant too young to walk

A liquor commonly consumed in Nova Scotia

A will

A type of fur
25 Which of the following is a simile?

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

"his eyes were red glass"

"He was all white, like a doll"

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

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