Bogland Quizzes

Bogland Quiz

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

The fir trees

A tarn

A bog

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

Century-old butter

Coal

Tree trunks

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

Cheese

Stone

Milk

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

Cherry

Fir

Pine

Oak
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 elk's skeleton

The speaker's eye

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

Ten years

The speaker does not know

Two years

Over a hundred years
9 Who is the speaker?

A young girl

The speaker is unspecified

Heaney

An elderly farmer
10 What does the narrator compare "an astounding crate of air" to?

The tarn

The skeleton of a man

The Great Irish Elk's skeleton

The unfenced country
11 What is described as "soft as pulp"?

The century-old butter

The setting sun

The speaker's hands

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

White

Black

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?

Ireland

North America

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.

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 slice the sun when it sets on the horizon

They might be Atlantic seepage

They are less useful than bogs

They are plentiful in Ireland
20 What in this poem is described as "bottomless"?

The cyclops' eye

The big sun

The speaker's fear

The wet center of the bogholes
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

A villanelle format

The first-person plural perspective

An a-b-a-b rhyme scheme
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."

pioneers

soldiers

fathers

wives

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