1 What are "polliwogs"? Goats Strong sea winds Nonsensical ideas Tadpoles 2 How many stanzas are in this poem? 9 6 12 7 3 Which animals are NOT on the island with Crusoe? Turtles Birds Goats 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? Goats Guano Irises Children 6 Which of the following is NOT personified in this poem? The volcanoes The trousers The knife The waterspouts 7 Crusoe describes the volcanic craters as what? Anxious Longing Ravenous Parched 8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions? To the navy To his biographer To Friday's family To a museum 9 What form does this poem take? It follows no set form Villanelle Sestina Ghazal 10 In which collection did this poem first appear? Geography III One Art The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe The Collected Works of Elizabeth Bishop 11 Crusoe compares the waterspouts he watches to what? Children and fairies Priests and chimneys Flutes and knives Snakes and rainbows 12 What types of stanzas make up this poem? There is no single stanza type Sestets Quatrains Couplets 13 What is the poem's meter? Iambic pentameter Iambic hexameter It has no single meter but frequently uses iambic pentameter Anapestic pentameter 14 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? AABB CCDD It contains rhyme but follows no set scheme It contains no rhyme at all ABABCDCD 15 Which most closely fits Crusoe's description of the island? It is calm, quiet, and peaceful to the point of monotony It is thrilling and unpredictable It is scary at first but ultimately safe It is boring but frightening 16 What is the poem's climax? Crusoe's rescue Crusoe and Friday's meeting The shipwreck Crusoe's discovery of the parasol 17 Who is Friday? Crusoe's brother An indigenous man who Crusoe befriends An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship A member of the shipwrecked crew 18 This poem quotes a work by which writer? William Wordsworth Aphra Behn Robert Lowell Charles Dickens 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 1719 1976 1812 21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia? "Hiss" "crucifix" "bored" "stinging" 22 What is "basalt"? An eighteenth-century ship A poetic form An island formation A type of volcanic rock 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? An alcoholic beverage Waves A flock of birds A tool to curl hair 25 Crusoe compares the sound of turtles to which of the following? A teakettle A giant walking A tree A drum
