First Death in Nova Scotia Quizzes

First Death in Nova Scotia Quiz

1 Who has died in the poem?
The King

The speaker's cousin

The speaker's mother

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

Sleep

Cold

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

To join the royal court

To be buried in the cemetery

To bed upstairs
4 Which best describes the speaker?
Naive

Devastated

Sad

Ferocious
5 Who shot the loon?
The speaker

Arthur

The speaker's father

Uncle Arthur
6 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic hexameter

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic pentameter

It has no single consistent meter
7 When does this poem evidently take place?
The 2010s

The early Victorian era

The early twentieth century

The Tudor 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?
1891

1965

1912

1978
10 Which of the following colors appear as motifs?
Black and white

Red and white

Black and blue

Blue and yellow
11 The speaker uses a metaphor to compare a table to what?
An open book

A person's back

A frozen lake

A dinner plate
12 What is Nova Scotia?
A town in Wales

A London neighborhood

A Canadian provice

A city in the Midwestern U.S.
13 Which royal figure is NOT mentioned in the poem?
Princess Alexandra

King George

Queen Victoria

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

Simile

Personification

Hyperbole
15 What is a loon?
A type of bird

A shroud

A mourning parent

A funeral dirge
16 Which of the following is a prominent theme of the poem?
Childhood

Nature

Christianity

Art and music
17 What does the flower most closely symbolize?
Femininity and romance

Death and purity

Springtime

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

At a birthday party

At a hospital

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

Simile

Alliteration

Synecdoche
20 What does the word "chromograph" mean?
Early type of color photograph

Early telephone model

Coffin

Device used for playing recorded music
21 Who is the poem's speaker?
A page in the British royal court

The father of a dead child

A young child

A dead woman
22 In which season does this poem seemingly take place?
Winter

Spring

Fall

Summer
23 Who is Jack Frost?
A folkloric figure

A real-life childhood friend of Elizabeth Bishop

A minor biblical character

A popular Victorian essayist
24 What is ermine?
A will

A type of fur

An infant too young to walk

A liquor commonly consumed in Nova Scotia
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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