First Death in Nova Scotia Quizzes

First Death in Nova Scotia Quiz

1 Who has died in the poem?
The King

The speaker's mother

The speaker's cousin

The speaker
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 the frozen lake

To bed upstairs

To join the royal court

To be buried in the cemetery
4 Which best describes the speaker?
Sad

Ferocious

Naive

Devastated
5 Who shot the loon?
Uncle Arthur

The speaker

The speaker's father

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

Trochaic pentameter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic hexameter
7 When does this poem evidently take place?
The Tudor era

The early twentieth century

The 2010s

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

1912

1978

1891
10 Which of the following colors appear as motifs?
Black and white

Red and white

Blue and yellow

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

A dinner plate

A frozen lake

An open book
12 What is Nova Scotia?
A Canadian provice

A city in the Midwestern U.S.

A London neighborhood

A town in Wales
13 Which royal figure is NOT mentioned in the poem?
Princess Alexandra

King George

Queen Mary

Queen Victoria
14 The statement "Arthur's coffin was / a little frosted cake" is an instance of what?
Simile

Personification

Metaphor

Hyperbole
15 What is a loon?
A shroud

A mourning parent

A funeral dirge

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

Christianity

Art and music

Nature
17 What does the flower most closely symbolize?
Springtime

Death and purity

Femininity and romance

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

At a hospital

At a wake

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

Simile

Alliteration

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

Early telephone model

Coffin

Early type of color photograph
21 Who is the poem's speaker?
A page in the British royal court

A young child

A dead woman

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

Winter

Spring

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?
A liquor commonly consumed in Nova Scotia

A will

A type of fur

An infant too young to walk
25 Which of the following is a simile?
"the red-eyed loon eyed it/from his white, frozen lake."

"his eyes were red glass"

"He was all white, like a doll"

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

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