Bogland Quizzes

Bogland Quiz

1 What does the speaker refer to as a "cyclops' eye?"
The fir trees

A bog

A tarn

The eye of the Great Irish Elk
2 Which of the following is NOT dug out of the turf?
Tree trunks

Coal

Century-old butter

A skeleton of the Great Irish Elk
3 What does the speaker compare the ground to?
Stone

Butter

Milk

Cheese
4 What kind of trees are dug up out of the peat?
Cherry

Pine

Fir

Oak
5 "The _____ might be Atlantic seepage."
oasis

bogholes

tarn

butter
6 This poem is told from the first-person perspective.

True

False
7 What "keeps crusting/Between the sights of the sun"?
The tree trunks

The bog

The elk's skeleton

The speaker's eye
8 How old is the butter found in the peat?
Two years

Over a hundred years

The speaker does not know

Ten years
9 Who is the speaker?
The speaker is unspecified

Heaney

An elderly farmer

A young girl
10 What does the narrator compare "an astounding crate of air" to?
The skeleton of a man

The unfenced country

The Great Irish Elk's skeleton

The tarn
11 What is described as "soft as pulp"?
The setting sun

The speaker's hands

The century-old butter

The fir trees dug out of the turf
12 What color is the butter pulled out of the peat?
White

Murky brown

Black

Green with mold
13 The speaker describes men digging for coal in the bogland.

True

False
14 Where does this poem take place?
North America

Ireland

Antarctica

England
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.
False

True
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 are plentiful in Ireland

They might be Atlantic seepage

They slice the sun when it sets on the horizon

They are less useful than bogs
20 What in this poem is described as "bottomless"?
The speaker's fear

The big sun

The wet center of the bogholes

The cyclops' eye
21 What does the speaker refer to as "salty and white?"
The crusty top of the bogs

The froth on the ocean

The butter

The cyclops' eye
22 Which of the following does this poem use?
An a-b-a-b rhyme scheme

Iambic pentameter

The first-person plural perspective

A villanelle format
23 This poem takes place in the prairies of North America.
False

True
24 The bogs provide a very efficient energy source for the country's inhabitants.
True

False
25 "Our _______ keep striking/Inwards and downwards,/Every layer they strip/Seems camped on before."
soldiers

pioneers

fathers

wives

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