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 speaker's mother

The King
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 join the royal court

To be buried in the cemetery

To bed upstairs

To the frozen lake
4 Which best describes the speaker?
Sad

Devastated

Naive

Ferocious
5 Who shot the loon?
Uncle Arthur

The speaker

The speaker's father

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

Iambic hexameter

It has no single consistent meter

Trochaic pentameter
7 When does this poem evidently take place?
The Tudor era

The early Victorian era

The early twentieth century

The 2010s
8 What is the poem's structure?
Four stanzas of seven lines each

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
9 When was this poem first published in a book?
1912

1965

1891

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

Blue and yellow

Black and blue

Red and white
11 The speaker uses a metaphor to compare a table to what?
A dinner plate

A frozen lake

A person's back

An open book
12 What is Nova Scotia?
A town in Wales

A city in the Midwestern U.S.

A London neighborhood

A Canadian provice
13 Which royal figure is NOT mentioned in the poem?
King George

Princess Alexandra

Queen Mary

Queen Victoria
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 mourning parent

A funeral dirge

A shroud

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

Art and music

Christianity

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

Death and purity

Springtime

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?
Alliteration

Simile

Synecdoche

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

Early type of color photograph

Coffin

Device used for playing recorded music
21 Who is the poem's speaker?
A page in the British royal court

A dead woman

A young child

The father of a dead child
22 In which season does this poem seemingly take place?
Winter

Fall

Summer

Spring
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?
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?
"his eyes were red glass"

"He was all white, like a doll"

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

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

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