Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?
Nonsensical ideas

Tadpoles

Goats

Strong sea winds
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?
9

6

12

7
3 Which animals are NOT on the island with Crusoe?
Goats

Monkeys

Turtles

Birds
4 On which early novel is this poem based?
Pamela

Tom Jones

Tristram Shandy

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

Irises

Goats

Children
6 Which of the following is NOT personified in this poem?
The trousers

The knife

The waterspouts

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

Parched

Longing

Ravenous
8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions?
To a museum

To his biographer

To Friday's family

To the navy
9 What form does this poem take?
Sestina

It follows no set form

Villanelle

Ghazal
10 In which collection did this poem first appear?
The Collected Works of Elizabeth Bishop

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

One Art

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

Children and fairies

Flutes and knives

Snakes and rainbows
12 What types of stanzas make up this poem?
Sestets

There is no single stanza type

Quatrains

Couplets
13 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic hexameter

Anapestic pentameter

Iambic pentameter

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

It contains no rhyme at all

AABB CCDD

It contains rhyme but follows no set scheme
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 and Friday's meeting

Crusoe's discovery of the parasol
17 Who is Friday?
A member of the shipwrecked crew

Crusoe's brother

An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship

An indigenous man who Crusoe befriends
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?
Isolation

Feminism and womanhood

Love and grief

Memory
20 When was this poem written?
1976

1719

1812

2004
21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
"crucifix"

"bored"

"Hiss"

"stinging"
22 What is "basalt"?
An island formation

An eighteenth-century ship

A type of volcanic rock

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

A ship at sea

Friday's house

A deserted island
24 What are "rollers" as described in this poem?
A flock of birds

Waves

A tool to curl hair

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

A teakettle

A drum

A giant walking

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