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 cousin

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

Cold

Sleep

Celestial bodies
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?
Ferocious

Naive

Sad

Devastated
5 Who shot the loon?
Uncle Arthur

The speaker

The speaker's father

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

Iambic pentameter

It has no single consistent meter

Iambic hexameter
7 When does this poem evidently take place?
The early twentieth century

The 2010s

The Tudor era

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

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

Five stanzas of ten lines each

Six stanzas of varied length
9 When was this poem first published in a book?
1965

1891

1978

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

Red and white

Black and blue

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

An open book

A dinner plate

A frozen lake
12 What is Nova Scotia?
A London neighborhood

A city in the Midwestern U.S.

A Canadian provice

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

Queen Victoria

Queen Mary

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

Hyperbole

Simile

Personification
15 What is a loon?
A funeral dirge

A mourning parent

A shroud

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

Nature

Childhood

Christianity
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 burial

At a wake

At a birthday party

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

Simile

Understatement

Alliteration
20 What does the word "chromograph" mean?
Device used for playing recorded music

Coffin

Early telephone model

Early type of color photograph
21 Who is the poem's speaker?
A dead woman

The father of a dead child

A young child

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

Spring

Winter

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

A minor biblical character

A popular Victorian essayist

A folkloric figure
24 What is ermine?
A liquor commonly consumed in Nova Scotia

An infant too young to walk

A will

A type of fur
25 Which of the following is a simile?
"his eyes were red glass"

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

"He was all white, like a doll"

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

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