First Death in Nova Scotia Quizzes

First Death in Nova Scotia Quiz

1 Who has died in the poem?

The speaker

The speaker's mother

The speaker's cousin

The King
2 Which of the following is a prominent motif in the poem?

Cold

Sleep

Trees

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

To be buried in the cemetery

To the frozen lake

To bed upstairs

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 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

Six stanzas of varied length

Five stanzas of ten lines each
9 When was this poem first published in a book?

1891

1965

1912

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 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?

Queen Victoria

King George

Queen Mary

Princess Alexandra
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 type of bird

A mourning parent

A funeral dirge
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

Femininity and romance

Springtime

Death and purity
18 Where does the poem take place?

At a birthday party

At a wake

At a burial

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

Simile

Understatement

Alliteration

Synecdoche
20 What does the word "chromograph" mean?

Early type of color photograph

Device used for playing recorded music

Coffin

Early telephone model
21 Who is the poem's speaker?

The father of a dead child

A young child

A dead woman

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

Winter

Spring

Fall

Summer
23 Who is Jack Frost?

A folkloric figure

A popular Victorian essayist

A real-life childhood friend of Elizabeth Bishop

A minor biblical character
24 What is ermine?

A will

A liquor commonly consumed in Nova Scotia

An infant too young to walk

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

"He was all white, like a doll"

"his eyes were red glass"

"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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