Bogland Quizzes

Bogland Quiz

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

A bog

A tarn

The eye of the Great Irish Elk

The fir trees
2 Which of the following is NOT dug out of the turf?

Coal

Tree trunks

A skeleton of the Great Irish Elk

Century-old butter
3 What does the speaker compare the ground to?

Cheese

Butter

Milk

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

Cherry

Pine

Oak

Fir
5 "The _____ might be Atlantic seepage."

bogholes

oasis

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 bog

The speaker's eye

The elk's skeleton

The tree trunks
8 How old is the butter found in the peat?

The speaker does not know

Over a hundred years

Ten years

Two years
9 Who is the speaker?

An elderly farmer

A young girl

The speaker is unspecified

Heaney
10 What does the narrator compare "an astounding crate of air" to?

The unfenced country

The tarn

The Great Irish Elk's skeleton

The skeleton of a man
11 What is described as "soft as pulp"?

The speaker's hands

The century-old butter

The fir trees dug out of the turf

The setting sun
12 What color is the butter pulled out of the peat?

Black

White

Murky brown

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

False

True
14 Where does this poem take place?

England

Antarctica

North America

Ireland
15 "Every layer they strip/Seems camped on before." The layers referred to here are layers in the bogs.

False

True
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.

False

True
18 What do "they" do with the skeleton of the Great Irish Elk?

They put it together on display

They ignore the finding

They bury it

They are shocked by how small it is
19 What does the speaker say about prairies?

They are plentiful in Ireland

They are less useful than bogs

They slice the sun when it sets on the horizon

They might be Atlantic seepage
20 What in this poem is described as "bottomless"?

The big sun

The wet center of the bogholes

The cyclops' eye

The speaker's fear
21 What does the speaker refer to as "salty and white?"

The cyclops' eye

The crusty top of the bogs

The butter

The froth on the ocean
22 Which of the following does this poem use?

Iambic pentameter

The first-person plural perspective

An a-b-a-b rhyme scheme

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."

fathers

wives

soldiers

pioneers

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