First Death in Nova Scotia Quizzes

First Death in Nova Scotia Quiz

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

The King

The speaker

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

Celestial bodies

Trees

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

To bed upstairs

To be buried in the cemetery

To join the royal court
4 Which best describes the speaker?
Devastated

Sad

Naive

Ferocious
5 Who shot the loon?
Uncle Arthur

The speaker

Arthur

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 early twentieth century

The Tudor era

The 2010s
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?
1978

1891

1965

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

Red and white

Blue and yellow

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

A frozen lake

A person's back

A dinner plate
12 What is Nova Scotia?
A London neighborhood

A Canadian provice

A town in Wales

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

Queen Victoria

King George

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

Metaphor

Hyperbole

Simile
15 What is a loon?
A shroud

A funeral dirge

A mourning parent

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

Art and music

Nature

Childhood
17 What does the flower most closely symbolize?
Death and purity

Youth and life

Springtime

Femininity and romance
18 Where does the poem take place?
At a burial

At a birthday party

At a hospital

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

Synecdoche

Understatement

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

Early telephone model

Device used for playing recorded music

Coffin
21 Who is the poem's speaker?
A dead woman

A young child

The father of a dead child

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

Fall

Winter

Spring
23 Who is Jack Frost?
A popular Victorian essayist

A minor biblical character

A folkloric figure

A real-life childhood friend of Elizabeth Bishop
24 What is ermine?
A will

A type of fur

An infant too young to walk

A liquor commonly consumed in Nova Scotia
25 Which of the following is a simile?
"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"

"He was all white, like a doll"

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