Bogland Quizzes

Bogland Quiz

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

The eye of the Great Irish Elk

A tarn

A bog
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?
Stone

Butter

Cheese

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

Cherry

Oak

Fir
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 bog

The tree trunks

The speaker's eye

The elk's skeleton
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?
The speaker is unspecified

An elderly farmer

Heaney

A young girl
10 What does the narrator compare "an astounding crate of air" to?
The Great Irish Elk's skeleton

The skeleton of a man

The unfenced country

The tarn
11 What is described as "soft as pulp"?
The fir trees dug out of the turf

The century-old butter

The setting sun

The speaker's hands
12 What color is the butter pulled out of the peat?
Green with mold

Murky brown

Black

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

True

False
14 Where does this poem take place?
England

Ireland

Antarctica

North America
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.

False

True
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 ignore the finding

They bury it

They put it together on display

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

They slice the sun when it sets on the horizon

They might be Atlantic seepage

They are less useful than bogs
20 What in this poem is described as "bottomless"?
The wet center of the bogholes

The speaker's fear

The cyclops' eye

The big sun
21 What does the speaker refer to as "salty and white?"
The cyclops' eye

The butter

The froth on the ocean

The crusty top of the bogs
22 Which of the following does this poem use?
A villanelle format

An a-b-a-b rhyme scheme

Iambic pentameter

The first-person plural perspective
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."
pioneers

soldiers

fathers

wives

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