Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?

Tadpoles

Goats

Nonsensical ideas

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

6

12

9

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

Monkeys

Turtles

Birds

Goats
4 On which early novel is this poem based?

Robinson Crusoe

Tom Jones

Pamela

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

Goats

Guano

Irises

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

The volcanoes

The trousers

The waterspouts

The knife
7 Crusoe describes the volcanic craters as what?

Longing

Ravenous

Anxious

Parched
8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions?

To his biographer

To the navy

To Friday's family

To a museum
9 What form does this poem take?

Villanelle

Ghazal

Sestina

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

Geography III

The Collected Works of Elizabeth Bishop

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

One Art
11 Crusoe compares the waterspouts he watches to what?

Priests and chimneys

Flutes and knives

Children and fairies

Snakes and rainbows
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

Iambic hexameter

Anapestic 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

It contains rhyme but follows no set scheme

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

It is scary at first but ultimately safe

It is boring but frightening

It is thrilling and unpredictable

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

Crusoe's discovery of the parasol

The shipwreck

Crusoe's rescue

Crusoe and Friday's meeting
17 Who is Friday?

An indigenous man who Crusoe befriends

Crusoe's brother

A member of the shipwrecked crew

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

William Wordsworth

Robert Lowell

Aphra Behn

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

Isolation

Love and grief

Memory

Feminism and womanhood
20 When was this poem written?

1812

1976

1719

2004
21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?

"stinging"

"Hiss"

"bored"

"crucifix"
22 What is "basalt"?

An eighteenth-century ship

A type of volcanic rock

A poetic form

An island formation
23 Where is the speaker at the time of the poem's narration?

A deserted island

Friday's house

A ship at sea

England
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 tree

A teakettle

A drum

A giant walking

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