First Death in Nova Scotia Quizzes

First Death in Nova Scotia Quiz

1 Who has died in the poem?
The King

The speaker

The speaker's cousin

The speaker's mother
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 be buried in the cemetery

To bed upstairs

To the frozen lake

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

Ferocious

Naive

Sad
5 Who shot the loon?
The speaker

The speaker's father

Arthur

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

Iambic hexameter

It has no single consistent meter

Trochaic pentameter
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?
Five stanzas of ten lines each

Four stanzas of seven lines each

Six stanzas of varied length

Two stanzas of fourteen lines each, followed by two stanzas of seven lines each
9 When was this poem first published in a book?
1978

1965

1912

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

Black and white

Blue and yellow

Red and white
11 The speaker uses a metaphor to compare a table to what?
An open book

A dinner plate

A frozen lake

A person's back
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?
King George

Queen Mary

Queen Victoria

Princess Alexandra
14 The statement "Arthur's coffin was / a little frosted cake" is an instance of what?
Hyperbole

Metaphor

Personification

Simile
15 What is a loon?
A funeral dirge

A type of bird

A mourning parent

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

Art and music

Christianity

Childhood
17 What does the flower most closely symbolize?
Springtime

Youth and life

Death and purity

Femininity and romance
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?
Simile

Alliteration

Understatement

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

Early telephone model

Device used for playing recorded music

Coffin
21 Who is the poem's speaker?
A young child

A page in the British royal court

The father of a dead child

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

Fall

Winter

Spring
23 Who is Jack Frost?
A minor biblical character

A popular Victorian essayist

A folkloric figure

A real-life childhood friend of Elizabeth Bishop
24 What is ermine?
A will

An infant too young to walk

A liquor commonly consumed in Nova Scotia

A type of fur
25 Which of the following is a simile?
"They invited Arthur to be / the smallest page at court."

"He was all white, like a doll"

"his eyes were red glass"

"the red-eyed loon eyed it/from his white, frozen lake."

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