Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?

Nonsensical ideas

Strong sea winds

Goats

Tadpoles
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?

7

6

12

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

Birds

Turtles

Monkeys

Goats
4 On which early novel is this poem based?

Pamela

Robinson Crusoe

Tom Jones

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

Children

Guano

Goats

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

The waterspouts

The volcanoes

The trousers

The knife
7 Crusoe describes the volcanic craters as what?

Ravenous

Longing

Anxious

Parched
8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions?

To Friday's family

To his biographer

To a museum

To the navy
9 What form does this poem take?

Sestina

Ghazal

Villanelle

It follows no set form
10 In which collection did this poem first appear?

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Geography III

One Art

The Collected Works of Elizabeth Bishop
11 Crusoe compares the waterspouts he watches to what?

Priests and chimneys

Children and fairies

Snakes and rainbows

Flutes and knives
12 What types of stanzas make up this poem?

There is no single stanza type

Couplets

Quatrains

Sestets
13 What is the poem's meter?

Iambic pentameter

It has no single meter but frequently uses iambic pentameter

Anapestic pentameter

Iambic hexameter
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 calm, quiet, and peaceful to the point of monotony

It is thrilling and unpredictable

It is boring but frightening

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

Crusoe and Friday's meeting

Crusoe's rescue

The shipwreck

Crusoe's discovery of the parasol
17 Who is Friday?

A member of the shipwrecked crew

Crusoe's brother

An indigenous man who Crusoe befriends

An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship
18 This poem quotes a work by which writer?

Aphra Behn

Charles Dickens

Robert Lowell

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

Love and grief

Isolation

Feminism and womanhood

Memory
20 When was this poem written?

1719

1976

2004

1812
21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?

"crucifix"

"Hiss"

"bored"

"stinging"
22 What is "basalt"?

An island formation

A poetic form

A type of volcanic rock

An eighteenth-century ship
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

A tool to curl hair

Waves

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

A teakettle

A tree

A drum

A giant walking

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