The Paper Nautilus Quizzes

The Paper Nautilus Quiz 1

1 Authorities' hopes are shaped by

devils

mercenaries

poets

nautili
2 Who is entrapped by teatime fame?

Authorities

Poets

Mercenaries

Writers
3 Commuters are described as

friendly

authoritative

dull

comfortable
4 The shell is

opulent

broken

heavy

thin
5 The souvenir of hope is

comfortable

perishable

authoritative

raw
6 The outside is

pink

glossy white

gray

dull white
7 The inner surface is

ragged

matte

dull

glossy
8 When does the nautilus guard her eggs?

Day and night

Day

Night

Never
9 What does she not do until the eggs hatch?

Sleep

Eat

Move

Speak
10 How many arms does she have?

2

10

4

8
11 What fish is she compared to?

A catfish

A clownfish

A devilfish

A piranha
12 What does she do for the eggs?

Crushes them

Ignores them

Separates them

Hides them
13 She refers to her eggs as

packages

babies

freight

spheres
14 What Greek hero does the poet mention?

Achilles

Hercules

Paris

Ajax
15 What does the crab do to Hercules?

Hinders him

Inspires him

Kills him

Devours him
16 When the eggs are freed,

they break the shell

they make their own shells

they die

they leave the shell intact
17 What creature's nest does the poet mention?

Wasp

Rat

Bee

Bird
18 The chiton-folds are compared to

the wasp nest

the Parthenon horse

Hercules and his labor

the glossy sea
19 What is "the only fortress / strong enough to trust to"?

Family

Love

Mother

The sea
20 The mother's love is

nurturing

obsessive

intense

all of these
21 The nautilus makes her shell for

the crab

the commuters

the authorities

the eggs
22 What best describes the nautilus?

Morose

Reserved

Indifferent

Dedicated
23 The shell is depicted as

ragged

fragile

capacious

heavy
24 The following are themes of the poem except

maternal love

the sea

religion

endurance
25 The eggs

resist against their mother's love

never hatch

do not break the shell

are watched intensively

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