Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?

Tadpoles

Goats

Strong sea winds

Nonsensical ideas
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?

9

7

12

6
3 Which animals are NOT on the island with Crusoe?

Birds

Goats

Turtles

Monkeys
4 On which early novel is this poem based?

Tristram Shandy

Pamela

Tom Jones

Robinson Crusoe
5 To what does Crusoe compare the island's snails?

Guano

Irises

Children

Goats
6 Which of the following is NOT personified in this poem?

The volcanoes

The waterspouts

The trousers

The knife
7 Crusoe describes the volcanic craters as what?

Ravenous

Longing

Parched

Anxious
8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions?

To Friday's family

To his biographer

To the navy

To a museum
9 What form does this poem take?

It follows no set form

Ghazal

Sestina

Villanelle
10 In which collection did this poem first appear?

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

The Collected Works of Elizabeth Bishop

One Art

Geography III
11 Crusoe compares the waterspouts he watches to what?

Snakes and rainbows

Flutes and knives

Children and fairies

Priests and chimneys
12 What types of stanzas make up this poem?

There is no single stanza type

Quatrains

Sestets

Couplets
13 What is the poem's meter?

Iambic pentameter

Anapestic pentameter

It has no single meter but frequently uses iambic pentameter

Iambic hexameter
14 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

It contains rhyme but follows no set scheme

It contains no rhyme at all

ABABCDCD

AABB CCDD
15 Which most closely fits Crusoe's description of the island?

It is boring but frightening

It is thrilling and unpredictable

It is calm, quiet, and peaceful to the point of monotony

It is scary at first but ultimately safe
16 What is the poem's climax?

Crusoe's rescue

The shipwreck

Crusoe's discovery of the parasol

Crusoe and Friday's meeting
17 Who is Friday?

An indigenous man who Crusoe befriends

An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship

Crusoe's brother

A member of the shipwrecked crew
18 This poem quotes a work by which writer?

Charles Dickens

Robert Lowell

Aphra Behn

William Wordsworth
19 Which is NOT a major theme of this poem?

Memory

Feminism and womanhood

Isolation

Love and grief
20 When was this poem written?

2004

1812

1976

1719
21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?

"stinging"

"bored"

"Hiss"

"crucifix"
22 What is "basalt"?

An eighteenth-century ship

A type of volcanic rock

An island formation

A poetic form
23 Where is the speaker at the time of the poem's narration?

England

Friday's house

A deserted island

A ship at sea
24 What are "rollers" as described in this poem?

Waves

A tool to curl hair

A flock of birds

An alcoholic beverage
25 Crusoe compares the sound of turtles to which of the following?

A teakettle

A drum

A tree

A giant walking

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