Bogland Quizzes

Bogland Quiz

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

The fir trees

The eye of the Great Irish Elk

A bog
2 Which of the following is NOT dug out of the turf?
A skeleton of the Great Irish Elk

Coal

Tree trunks

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

Cheese

Butter

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

Cherry

Fir

Pine
5 "The _____ might be Atlantic seepage."
oasis

tarn

bogholes

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 tree trunks

The elk's skeleton
8 How old is the butter found in the peat?
Over a hundred years

Two years

The speaker does not know

Ten years
9 Who is the speaker?
An elderly farmer

Heaney

A young girl

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

The skeleton of a man

The tarn

The Great Irish Elk's skeleton
11 What is described as "soft as pulp"?
The setting sun

The fir trees dug out of the turf

The speaker's hands

The century-old butter
12 What color is the butter pulled out of the peat?
Green with mold

Black

Murky brown

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

False
14 Where does this poem take place?
England

North America

Antarctica

Ireland
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 ignore the finding

They put it together on display

They bury it
19 What does the speaker say about prairies?
They are plentiful in Ireland

They are less useful than bogs

They might be Atlantic seepage

They slice the sun when it sets on the horizon
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 butter

The crusty top of the bogs

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

The first-person plural perspective

An a-b-a-b rhyme scheme

Iambic pentameter
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.
True

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

wives

fathers

pioneers

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