1 Who has died in the poem? The speaker's mother The speaker's cousin The King The speaker 2 Which of the following is a prominent motif in the poem? Celestial bodies Sleep Cold Trees 3 Where does the speaker think Arthur will go next? To bed upstairs To the frozen lake To join the royal court To be buried in the cemetery 4 Which best describes the speaker? Naive Ferocious Devastated Sad 5 Who shot the loon? The speaker Arthur The speaker's father Uncle Arthur 6 What is the poem's meter? It has no single consistent meter Iambic hexameter Trochaic pentameter Iambic pentameter 7 When does this poem evidently take place? The Tudor era The early twentieth century The early Victorian era The 2010s 8 What is the poem's structure? Five stanzas of ten lines each Two stanzas of fourteen lines each, followed by two stanzas of seven lines each Six stanzas of varied length Four stanzas of seven lines each 9 When was this poem first published in a book? 1891 1912 1965 1978 10 Which of the following colors appear as motifs? Black and white Black and blue Red and white Blue and yellow 11 The speaker uses a metaphor to compare a table to what? A frozen lake An open book A person's back A dinner plate 12 What is Nova Scotia? A Canadian provice A town in Wales A London neighborhood A city in the Midwestern U.S. 13 Which royal figure is NOT mentioned in the poem? Princess Alexandra Queen Mary Queen Victoria King George 14 The statement "Arthur's coffin was / a little frosted cake" is an instance of what? Simile Metaphor Personification Hyperbole 15 What is a loon? A mourning parent A shroud A funeral dirge A type of bird 16 Which of the following is a prominent theme of the poem? Art and music Christianity Nature Childhood 17 What does the flower most closely symbolize? Death and purity Femininity and romance Springtime Youth and life 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? Understatement Synecdoche Alliteration Simile 20 What does the word "chromograph" mean? Coffin Early telephone model Device used for playing recorded music Early type of color photograph 21 Who is the poem's speaker? A page in the British royal court A young child The father of a dead child A dead woman 22 In which season does this poem seemingly take place? Fall Summer Spring Winter 23 Who is Jack Frost? A real-life childhood friend of Elizabeth Bishop A minor biblical character A folkloric figure A popular Victorian essayist 24 What is ermine? A type of fur An infant too young to walk A will A liquor commonly consumed in Nova Scotia 25 Which of the following is a simile? "They invited Arthur to be / the smallest page at court." "his eyes were red glass" "the red-eyed loon eyed it/from his white, frozen lake." "He was all white, like a doll"
