Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?
Nonsensical ideas

Goats

Tadpoles

Strong sea winds
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?
6

7

12

9
3 Which animals are NOT on the island with Crusoe?
Turtles

Birds

Monkeys

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

Robinson Crusoe

Pamela

Tom Jones
5 To what does Crusoe compare the island's snails?
Irises

Guano

Children

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

The trousers

The volcanoes

The knife
7 Crusoe describes the volcanic craters as what?
Ravenous

Longing

Parched

Anxious
8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions?
To the navy

To his biographer

To a museum

To Friday's family
9 What form does this poem take?
Sestina

Ghazal

It follows no set form

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

One Art

Geography III

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
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?
Quatrains

Couplets

Sestets

There is no single stanza type
13 What is the poem's meter?
Anapestic pentameter

Iambic hexameter

Iambic pentameter

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

AABB CCDD

ABABCDCD

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 scary at first but ultimately safe

It is thrilling and unpredictable

It is calm, quiet, and peaceful to the point of monotony
16 What is the poem's climax?
The shipwreck

Crusoe's discovery of the parasol

Crusoe's rescue

Crusoe and Friday's meeting
17 Who is Friday?
A member of the shipwrecked crew

An indigenous man who Crusoe befriends

An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship

Crusoe's brother
18 This poem quotes a work by which writer?
Robert Lowell

William Wordsworth

Aphra Behn

Charles Dickens
19 Which is NOT a major theme of this poem?
Love and grief

Feminism and womanhood

Isolation

Memory
20 When was this poem written?
1812

1719

2004

1976
21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
"Hiss"

"bored"

"crucifix"

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

A type of volcanic rock

A poetic form

An eighteenth-century ship
23 Where is the speaker at the time of the poem's narration?
Friday's house

A ship at sea

A deserted island

England
24 What are "rollers" as described in this poem?
An alcoholic beverage

A flock of birds

Waves

A tool to curl hair
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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