Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?

Strong sea winds

Nonsensical ideas

Goats

Tadpoles
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?

6

12

7

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

Monkeys

Birds

Goats

Turtles
4 On which early novel is this poem based?

Tristram Shandy

Tom Jones

Pamela

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

Irises

Guano

Goats

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

The volcanoes

The trousers

The knife

The waterspouts
7 Crusoe describes the volcanic craters as what?

Anxious

Ravenous

Parched

Longing
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?

It follows no set form

Villanelle

Sestina

Ghazal
10 In which collection did this poem first appear?

One Art

The Collected Works of Elizabeth Bishop

Geography III

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

Flutes and knives

Priests and chimneys

Snakes and rainbows

Children and fairies
12 What types of stanzas make up this poem?

Quatrains

There is no single stanza type

Sestets

Couplets
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?

AABB CCDD

It contains no rhyme at all

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 calm, quiet, and peaceful to the point of monotony

It is scary at first but ultimately safe

It is thrilling and unpredictable
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?

An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship

Crusoe's brother

A member of the shipwrecked crew

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

William Wordsworth

Charles Dickens

Robert Lowell

Aphra Behn
19 Which is NOT a major theme of this poem?

Feminism and womanhood

Love and grief

Isolation

Memory
20 When was this poem written?

1976

1812

2004

1719
21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?

"stinging"

"Hiss"

"crucifix"

"bored"
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?

A ship at sea

A deserted island

Friday's house

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

An alcoholic beverage

Waves

A tool to curl hair

A flock of birds
25 Crusoe compares the sound of turtles to which of the following?

A tree

A drum

A teakettle

A giant walking

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