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?

7

12

9

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

Goats

Birds

Turtles

Monkeys
4 On which early novel is this poem based?

Tom Jones

Pamela

Tristram Shandy

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

Irises

Goats

Children

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

The waterspouts

The trousers

The knife

The volcanoes
7 Crusoe describes the volcanic craters as what?

Parched

Longing

Anxious

Ravenous
8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions?

To Friday's family

To a museum

To the navy

To his biographer
9 What form does this poem take?

Ghazal

It follows no set form

Sestina

Villanelle
10 In which collection did this poem first appear?

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

One Art

Geography III

The Collected Works of Elizabeth Bishop
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

Sestets

Couplets

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

It has no single meter but frequently uses iambic pentameter

Iambic pentameter

Anapestic pentameter

Iambic hexameter
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 scary at first but ultimately safe

It is boring but frightening

It is calm, quiet, and peaceful to the point of monotony

It is thrilling and unpredictable
16 What is the poem's climax?

The shipwreck

Crusoe's discovery of the parasol

Crusoe and Friday's meeting

Crusoe's rescue
17 Who is Friday?

A member of the shipwrecked crew

An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship

Crusoe's brother

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

Aphra Behn

Charles Dickens

William Wordsworth

Robert Lowell
19 Which is NOT a major theme of this poem?

Isolation

Memory

Feminism and womanhood

Love and grief
20 When was this poem written?

1719

2004

1976

1812
21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?

"Hiss"

"bored"

"crucifix"

"stinging"
22 What is "basalt"?

A type of volcanic rock

An island formation

A poetic form

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

A ship at sea

Friday's house

England

A deserted island
24 What are "rollers" as described in this poem?

An alcoholic beverage

A tool to curl hair

Waves

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

A teakettle

A giant walking

A drum

A tree

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