First Death in Nova Scotia Quizzes

First Death in Nova Scotia Quiz

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

The speaker

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 bed upstairs

To the frozen lake

To be buried in the cemetery

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

Sad

Ferocious

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

The speaker

Uncle Arthur

Arthur
6 What is the poem's meter?
It has no single consistent meter

Trochaic pentameter

Iambic hexameter

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

The 2010s

The early Victorian era

The Tudor era
8 What is the poem's structure?
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

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

1978

1891

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

Red and white

Black and white

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 town in Wales

A Canadian provice

A London neighborhood

A city in the Midwestern U.S.
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?
Hyperbole

Simile

Personification

Metaphor
15 What is a loon?
A funeral dirge

A shroud

A mourning parent

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

Christianity

Art and music

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

Springtime

Femininity and romance

Youth and life
18 Where does the poem take place?
At a hospital

At a birthday party

At a burial

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

Simile

Understatement

Synecdoche
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 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?
Winter

Spring

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 will

A liquor commonly consumed in Nova Scotia

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."

"his eyes were red glass"

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

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