Bogland Quizzes

Bogland Quiz

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

The fir trees

The eye of the Great Irish Elk

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

Coal

Century-old butter

Tree trunks
3 What does the speaker compare the ground to?
Butter

Milk

Cheese

Stone
4 What kind of trees are dug up out of the peat?
Fir

Pine

Cherry

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

oasis

bogholes

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

True

False
7 What "keeps crusting/Between the sights of the sun"?
The elk's skeleton

The speaker's eye

The bog

The tree trunks
8 How old is the butter found in the peat?
The speaker does not know

Two years

Ten years

Over a hundred years
9 Who is the speaker?
The speaker is unspecified

A young girl

Heaney

An elderly farmer
10 What does the narrator compare "an astounding crate of air" to?
The unfenced country

The Great Irish Elk's skeleton

The skeleton of a man

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

The setting sun

The century-old butter

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

White

Murky brown

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

False

True
14 Where does this poem take place?
Ireland

North America

Antarctica

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.
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 bury it

They put it together on display

They ignore the finding

They are shocked by how small it is
19 What does the speaker say about prairies?
They might be Atlantic seepage

They slice the sun when it sets on the horizon

They are plentiful in Ireland

They are less useful than bogs
20 What in this poem is described as "bottomless"?
The speaker's fear

The wet center of the bogholes

The big sun

The cyclops' eye
21 What does the speaker refer to as "salty and white?"
The froth on the ocean

The butter

The cyclops' eye

The crusty top of the bogs
22 Which of the following does this poem use?
The first-person plural perspective

A villanelle format

An a-b-a-b rhyme scheme

Iambic pentameter
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.

True

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

pioneers

fathers

wives

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