Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?

Tadpoles

Strong sea winds

Goats

Nonsensical ideas
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?

7

12

9

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

Monkeys

Turtles

Birds

Goats
4 On which early novel is this poem based?

Pamela

Tristram Shandy

Robinson Crusoe

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

Irises

Children

Guano

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?

Anxious

Longing

Ravenous

Parched
8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions?

To a museum

To the navy

To his biographer

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

Sestina

Villanelle

It follows no set form

Ghazal
10 In which collection did this poem first appear?

Geography III

The Collected Works of Elizabeth Bishop

One Art

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
11 Crusoe compares the waterspouts he watches to what?

Children and fairies

Flutes and knives

Priests and chimneys

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

There is no single stanza type

Couplets

Sestets

Quatrains
13 What is the poem's meter?

Iambic hexameter

Anapestic pentameter

It has no single meter but frequently uses iambic pentameter

Iambic pentameter
14 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

It contains rhyme but follows no set scheme

It contains no rhyme at all

ABABCDCD

AABB CCDD
15 Which most closely fits Crusoe's description of the island?

It is thrilling and unpredictable

It is boring but frightening

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 and Friday's meeting

Crusoe's discovery of the parasol

Crusoe's rescue

The shipwreck
17 Who is Friday?

A member of the shipwrecked crew

An indigenous man who Crusoe befriends

Crusoe's brother

An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship
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?

Isolation

Love and grief

Memory

Feminism and womanhood
20 When was this poem written?

2004

1719

1812

1976
21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?

"stinging"

"Hiss"

"bored"

"crucifix"
22 What is "basalt"?

An island formation

An eighteenth-century ship

A poetic form

A type of volcanic rock
23 Where is the speaker at the time of the poem's narration?

England

A deserted island

Friday's house

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 giant walking

A tree

A drum

A teakettle

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