Bogland Quizzes

Bogland Quiz

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

A bog

The eye of the Great Irish Elk

A tarn
2 Which of the following is NOT dug out of the turf?
Tree trunks

Century-old butter

Coal

A skeleton of the Great Irish Elk
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?
Cherry

Fir

Pine

Oak
5 "The _____ might be Atlantic seepage."
bogholes

oasis

tarn

butter
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 tree trunks

The speaker's eye

The elk's skeleton
8 How old is the butter found in the peat?
The speaker does not know

Over a hundred years

Ten years

Two 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 skeleton of a man

The Great Irish Elk's skeleton

The unfenced country

The tarn
11 What is described as "soft as pulp"?
The century-old butter

The fir trees dug out of the turf

The speaker's hands

The setting sun
12 What color is the butter pulled out of the peat?
White

Green with mold

Black

Murky brown
13 The speaker describes men digging for coal in the bogland.
False

True
14 Where does this poem take place?
North America

Antarctica

Ireland

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.

False

True
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 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 plentiful in Ireland

They might be Atlantic seepage

They slice the sun when it sets on the horizon

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

The cyclops' eye

The wet center of the bogholes

The speaker's fear
21 What does the speaker refer to as "salty and white?"
The crusty top of the bogs

The butter

The froth on the ocean

The cyclops' eye
22 Which of the following does this poem use?
The first-person plural perspective

Iambic pentameter

An a-b-a-b rhyme scheme

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.

True

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

soldiers

pioneers

fathers

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