A Grave Quizzes

A Grave Quiz 1

1 Who looks into the sea?

Women

Man

Men

Woman
2 Who has a right to the view?

Everyone

Men

Moore

Women
3 What is "human nature"?

To block others

To look at the sea

To stand in the middle of a thing

To stand tall
4 What does the sea have to give?

Despair

A grave

Freedom

Life
5 What things stand in a procession?

Waves

Men

Turkeys

Firs
6 What is at the top of the firs?

A wave

Fish

A turkey foot

A star
7 How are the firs described?

Ignorant

Cruel

Apathetic

Reserved
8 What is not an obvious characteristic of the sea?

Indifference

Cruelty

Rapaciousness

Repression
9 The sea is a/an

procurer

divider

collector

destroyer
10 What do the fish no longer investigate?

Nets

Rocks

Seaweed

Bones
11 Men ________ the grave.

disdain

destroy

desecrate

decimate
12 The blades of oars are compared to

water spiders

fish scales

birds

waves
13 The waves have

grooves

curves

wrinkles

contours
14 The sea rustles in and out of the

cliff

seaweed

rocks

foam
15 The birds ________ through the air.

careen

fly

swim

soar
16 What "scourges about the feet of the cliffs"?

Birds

Tortoise shell

Fish

Turkey
17 The _________ emit noises.

bell buoys

lighthouses

fish

cliffs
18 What happens to things that drop into the ocean?

They float

They pulse

They undulate

They sink
19 Those who twist and turn do so without volition or

consciousness

procession

pulsation

expression
20 Moore's attitude toward the sea is one of

disdain

fear

respect

enchantment
21 The sea is described as

alluring

greedy

calm

placid
22 Who/what is Moore most critical of?

Waves

Trees

Tortoises

Men
23 Men are described as

cruel

vibrant

silly

ignorant
24 What structure is described?

A church

A lighthouse

A steeple

A house
25 This poem is most similar to

"Marriage"

"The Fish"

"The Steeple-Jack"

"Poetry"

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