Bogland Quizzes

Bogland Quiz

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

The eye of the Great Irish Elk

The fir trees

A tarn

A bog
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?

Stone

Butter

Cheese

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

Oak

Cherry

Pine

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 elk's skeleton

The speaker's eye

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

Two years

The speaker does not know

Ten years

Over a hundred years
9 Who is the speaker?

A young girl

The speaker is unspecified

An elderly farmer

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

The skeleton of a man

The tarn

The Great Irish Elk's skeleton

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

The setting sun

The century-old butter

The speaker's hands

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

Murky brown

Green with mold

White

Black
13 The speaker describes men digging for coal in the bogland.

True

False
14 Where does this poem take place?

Ireland

Antarctica

North America

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.

True

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

They are shocked by how small it is

They bury it

They put it together on display

They ignore the finding
19 What does the speaker say about prairies?

They slice the sun when it sets on the horizon

They are plentiful in Ireland

They might be Atlantic seepage

They are less useful than bogs
20 What in this poem is described as "bottomless"?

The speaker's fear

The cyclops' eye

The big sun

The wet center of the bogholes
21 What does the speaker refer to as "salty and white?"

The froth on the ocean

The butter

The crusty top of the bogs

The cyclops' eye
22 Which of the following does this poem use?

An a-b-a-b rhyme scheme

The first-person plural perspective

Iambic pentameter

A villanelle format
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

soldiers

fathers

pioneers

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