Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?
Tadpoles

Strong sea winds

Nonsensical ideas

Goats
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?
9

7

12

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

Birds

Turtles

Goats
4 On which early novel is this poem based?
Tristram Shandy

Tom Jones

Robinson Crusoe

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

Children

Irises

Guano
6 Which of the following is NOT personified in this poem?
The volcanoes

The knife

The waterspouts

The trousers
7 Crusoe describes the volcanic craters as what?
Anxious

Ravenous

Parched

Longing
8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions?
To Friday's family

To a museum

To the navy

To his biographer
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

Geography III

The Collected Works of Elizabeth Bishop

One Art
11 Crusoe compares the waterspouts he watches to what?
Priests and chimneys

Snakes and rainbows

Flutes and knives

Children and fairies
12 What types of stanzas make up this poem?
There is no single stanza type

Sestets

Couplets

Quatrains
13 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic pentameter

Iambic hexameter

Anapestic pentameter

It has no single meter but frequently uses iambic pentameter
14 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
AABB CCDD

ABABCDCD

It contains no rhyme at all

It contains rhyme but follows no set scheme
15 Which most closely fits Crusoe's description of the island?
It is scary at first but ultimately safe

It is boring but frightening

It is thrilling and unpredictable

It is calm, quiet, and peaceful to the point of monotony
16 What is the poem's climax?
Crusoe's discovery of the parasol

Crusoe's rescue

Crusoe and Friday's meeting

The shipwreck
17 Who is Friday?
Crusoe's brother

An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship

A member of the shipwrecked crew

An indigenous man who Crusoe befriends
18 This poem quotes a work by which writer?
Aphra Behn

William Wordsworth

Charles Dickens

Robert Lowell
19 Which is NOT a major theme of this poem?
Memory

Love and grief

Isolation

Feminism and womanhood
20 When was this poem written?
1976

1719

2004

1812
21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
"crucifix"

"stinging"

"bored"

"Hiss"
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

A deserted island

A ship at sea

Friday's house
24 What are "rollers" as described in this poem?
An alcoholic beverage

A tool to curl hair

Waves

A flock of birds
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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