Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?
Nonsensical ideas

Goats

Strong sea winds

Tadpoles
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?
6

12

9

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

Monkeys

Turtles

Goats
4 On which early novel is this poem based?
Tom Jones

Tristram Shandy

Robinson Crusoe

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

Irises

Guano

Goats
6 Which of the following is NOT personified in this poem?
The knife

The volcanoes

The trousers

The waterspouts
7 Crusoe describes the volcanic craters as what?
Longing

Ravenous

Anxious

Parched
8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions?
To the navy

To Friday's family

To his biographer

To a museum
9 What form does this poem take?
It follows no set form

Ghazal

Sestina

Villanelle
10 In which collection did this poem first appear?
One Art

Geography III

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

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

Children and fairies

Priests and chimneys

Snakes and rainbows
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?
It has no single meter but frequently uses iambic pentameter

Anapestic pentameter

Iambic hexameter

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

AABB CCDD

It contains rhyme but follows no set scheme

It contains no rhyme at all
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?
The shipwreck

Crusoe's discovery of the parasol

Crusoe and Friday's meeting

Crusoe's rescue
17 Who is Friday?
An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship

A member of the shipwrecked crew

An indigenous man who Crusoe befriends

Crusoe's brother
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?
Feminism and womanhood

Isolation

Memory

Love and grief
20 When was this poem written?
2004

1812

1976

1719
21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
"bored"

"Hiss"

"crucifix"

"stinging"
22 What is "basalt"?
An eighteenth-century ship

An island formation

A type of volcanic rock

A poetic form
23 Where is the speaker at the time of the poem's narration?
Friday's house

England

A ship at sea

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

Waves

An alcoholic beverage

A tool to curl hair
25 Crusoe compares the sound of turtles to which of the following?
A tree

A giant walking

A drum

A teakettle

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