First Death in Nova Scotia Quizzes

First Death in Nova Scotia Quiz

1 Who has died in the poem?
The speaker

The speaker's cousin

The King

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

Cold

Trees

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

To bed upstairs

To join the royal court

To be buried in the cemetery
4 Which best describes the speaker?
Sad

Devastated

Naive

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

The speaker

Uncle Arthur

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 early twentieth century

The Tudor era

The 2010s

The early Victorian era
8 What is the poem's structure?
Six stanzas of varied length

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

Five stanzas of ten lines each

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

1912

1891

1978
10 Which of the following colors appear as motifs?
Blue and yellow

Black and blue

Black and white

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

A dinner plate

An open book

A frozen lake
12 What is Nova Scotia?
A city in the Midwestern U.S.

A London neighborhood

A town in Wales

A Canadian provice
13 Which royal figure is NOT mentioned in the poem?
Queen Mary

Queen Victoria

Princess Alexandra

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

Personification

Hyperbole

Metaphor
15 What is a loon?
A mourning parent

A type of bird

A funeral dirge

A shroud
16 Which of the following is a prominent theme of the poem?
Art and music

Christianity

Nature

Childhood
17 What does the flower most closely symbolize?
Springtime

Youth and life

Femininity and romance

Death and purity
18 Where does the poem take place?
At a burial

At a birthday party

At a wake

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

Synecdoche

Alliteration

Simile
20 What does the word "chromograph" mean?
Coffin

Early telephone model

Early type of color photograph

Device used for playing recorded music
21 Who is the poem's speaker?
The father of a dead child

A page in the British royal court

A dead woman

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

Winter

Summer

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

A folkloric figure

A popular Victorian essayist

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?
"He was all white, like a doll"

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

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

"his eyes were red glass"

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