1 Who has died in the poem? The speaker's cousin The speaker The King The speaker's mother 2 Which of the following is a prominent motif in the poem? Celestial bodies Trees Cold Sleep 3 Where does the speaker think Arthur will go next? To bed upstairs To join the royal court To the frozen lake To be buried in the cemetery 4 Which best describes the speaker? Devastated Ferocious Naive Sad 5 Who shot the loon? The speaker Uncle Arthur The speaker's father Arthur 6 What is the poem's meter? Trochaic pentameter Iambic pentameter Iambic hexameter It has no single consistent meter 7 When does this poem evidently take place? The early Victorian era The Tudor era The 2010s The early twentieth century 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 1978 1912 10 Which of the following colors appear as motifs? Blue and yellow Black and blue Black and white Red and white 11 The speaker uses a metaphor to compare a table to what? A dinner plate An open book A frozen lake A person's back 12 What is Nova Scotia? A town in Wales A London neighborhood A city in the Midwestern U.S. A Canadian provice 13 Which royal figure is NOT mentioned in the poem? Princess Alexandra Queen Mary King George Queen Victoria 14 The statement "Arthur's coffin was / a little frosted cake" is an instance of what? Personification Metaphor Simile Hyperbole 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? Christianity Childhood Nature Art and music 17 What does the flower most closely symbolize? Springtime Femininity and romance Death and purity Youth and life 18 Where does the poem take place? At a wake At a hospital At a birthday party At a burial 19 The lines "stood a stuffed loon / shot and stuffed" feature which of the following? Alliteration Understatement Synecdoche Simile 20 What does the word "chromograph" mean? Early telephone model Device used for playing recorded music Coffin Early type of color photograph 21 Who is the poem's speaker? A page in the British royal court A dead woman The father of a dead child A young child 22 In which season does this poem seemingly take place? Summer Fall Winter Spring 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? An infant too young to walk A liquor commonly consumed in Nova Scotia A type of fur A will 25 Which of the following is a simile? "They invited Arthur to be / the smallest page at court." "his eyes were red glass" "He was all white, like a doll" "the red-eyed loon eyed it/from his white, frozen lake."
