1 What does the speaker refer to as a "cyclops' eye?" The fir trees The eye of the Great Irish Elk A bog A tarn 2 Which of the following is NOT dug out of the turf? A skeleton of the Great Irish Elk Century-old butter Coal Tree trunks 3 What does the speaker compare the ground to? Milk Cheese Butter Stone 4 What kind of trees are dug up out of the peat? Oak Cherry Pine Fir 5 "The _____ might be Atlantic seepage." butter oasis bogholes tarn 6 This poem is told from the first-person perspective. False True 7 What "keeps crusting/Between the sights of the sun"? The bog The elk's skeleton The tree trunks The speaker's eye 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? An elderly farmer The speaker is unspecified A young girl Heaney 10 What does the narrator compare "an astounding crate of air" to? The tarn The Great Irish Elk's skeleton The skeleton of a man The unfenced country 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? Murky brown Black White Green with mold 13 The speaker describes men digging for coal in the bogland. False True 14 Where does this poem take place? Antarctica North America Ireland England 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 put it together on display 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 are less useful than bogs They are plentiful in Ireland They might be Atlantic seepage 20 What in this poem is described as "bottomless"? The wet center of the bogholes The big sun The speaker's fear The cyclops' eye 21 What does the speaker refer to as "salty and white?" The cyclops' eye The crusty top of the bogs The froth on the ocean The butter 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." wives pioneers fathers soldiers