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?

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."

tarn

butter

oasis

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

True

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

The speaker's eye

The elk's skeleton

The bog

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

Ten years

Over a hundred years

The speaker does not know

Two years
9 Who is the speaker?

Heaney

A young girl

An elderly farmer

The speaker is unspecified
10 What does the narrator compare "an astounding crate of air" to?

The Great Irish Elk's skeleton

The unfenced country

The tarn

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

The century-old butter

The fir trees dug out of the turf

The setting sun

The speaker's hands
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?

Ireland

England

Antarctica

North America
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.

False

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

They bury it

They are shocked by how small it is

They put it together on display

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

They are less useful than bogs

They slice the sun when it sets on the horizon

They might be Atlantic seepage

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

The wet center of the bogholes

The speaker's fear

The big sun

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 cyclops' eye

The butter
22 Which of the following does this poem use?

The first-person plural perspective

An a-b-a-b rhyme scheme

Iambic pentameter

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.

False

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

fathers

soldiers

pioneers

wives

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