1 What does the speaker refer to as a "cyclops' eye?" A tarn A bog The eye of the Great Irish Elk The fir trees 2 Which of the following is NOT dug out of the turf? A skeleton of the Great Irish Elk Century-old butter Coal Tree trunks 3 What does the speaker compare the ground to? Milk Stone Cheese Butter 4 What kind of trees are dug up out of the peat? Cherry Fir Pine Oak 5 "The _____ might be Atlantic seepage." butter bogholes oasis tarn 6 This poem is told from the first-person perspective. True False 7 What "keeps crusting/Between the sights of the sun"? The elk's skeleton The speaker's eye The tree trunks The bog 8 How old is the butter found in the peat? Two years Over a hundred years Ten years The speaker does not know 9 Who is the speaker? A young girl An elderly farmer Heaney The speaker is unspecified 10 What does the narrator compare "an astounding crate of air" to? The Great Irish Elk's skeleton The tarn The skeleton of a man The unfenced country 11 What is described as "soft as pulp"? The century-old butter The fir trees dug out of the turf The setting sun The speaker's hands 12 What color is the butter pulled out of the peat? Black Green with mold White Murky brown 13 The speaker describes men digging for coal in the bogland. True False 14 Where does this poem take place? Antarctica England Ireland North America 15 "Every layer they strip/Seems camped on before." The layers referred to here are layers in the bogs. True False 16 This poem celebrates the bogs of Ireland as an important natural resource. True False 17 This poem mentions several objects that are dug from where they were preserved in the bogs. True False 18 What do "they" do with the skeleton of the Great Irish Elk? They are shocked by how small it is They put it together on display They bury it They ignore the finding 19 What does the speaker say about prairies? They might be Atlantic seepage They are plentiful in Ireland They are less useful than bogs They slice the sun when it sets on the horizon 20 What in this poem is described as "bottomless"? The wet center of the bogholes The big sun The cyclops' eye The speaker's fear 21 What does the speaker refer to as "salty and white?" The cyclops' eye The froth on the ocean The crusty top of the bogs The butter 22 Which of the following does this poem use? The first-person plural perspective Iambic pentameter A villanelle format An a-b-a-b rhyme scheme 23 This poem takes place in the prairies of North America. True False 24 The bogs provide a very efficient energy source for the country's inhabitants. False True 25 "Our _______ keep striking/Inwards and downwards,/Every layer they strip/Seems camped on before." wives fathers soldiers pioneers