1 Who has died in the poem? The speaker's cousin The King The speaker The speaker's mother 2 Which of the following is a prominent motif in the poem? Cold Trees Celestial bodies Sleep 3 Where does the speaker think Arthur will go next? To be buried in the cemetery To join the royal court To bed upstairs To the frozen lake 4 Which best describes the speaker? Devastated Ferocious Naive Sad 5 Who shot the loon? Arthur The speaker's father The speaker Uncle Arthur 6 What is the poem's meter? It has no single consistent meter Trochaic pentameter Iambic pentameter Iambic hexameter 7 When does this poem evidently take place? The 2010s The early twentieth century The early Victorian era The Tudor era 8 What is the poem's structure? Five stanzas of ten lines each Four stanzas of seven lines each Six stanzas of varied length Two stanzas of fourteen lines each, followed by two stanzas of seven lines each 9 When was this poem first published in a book? 1891 1965 1912 1978 10 Which of the following colors appear as motifs? Black and blue Red and white Black and white Blue and yellow 11 The speaker uses a metaphor to compare a table to what? A dinner plate An open book A person's back A frozen lake 12 What is Nova Scotia? A London neighborhood A city in the Midwestern U.S. A Canadian provice A town in Wales 13 Which royal figure is NOT mentioned in the poem? Queen Mary Queen Victoria Princess Alexandra King George 14 The statement "Arthur's coffin was / a little frosted cake" is an instance of what? Simile Hyperbole Metaphor Personification 15 What is a loon? A funeral dirge A type of bird A mourning parent A shroud 16 Which of the following is a prominent theme of the poem? Art and music Childhood Nature Christianity 17 What does the flower most closely symbolize? Femininity and romance Springtime Death and purity Youth and life 18 Where does the poem take place? At a burial At a hospital At a birthday party At a wake 19 The lines "stood a stuffed loon / shot and stuffed" feature which of the following? Understatement Synecdoche Alliteration Simile 20 What does the word "chromograph" mean? Device used for playing recorded music Coffin Early type of color photograph Early telephone model 21 Who is the poem's speaker? The father of a dead child A page in the British royal court A young child A dead woman 22 In which season does this poem seemingly take place? Fall Winter Spring Summer 23 Who is Jack Frost? A real-life childhood friend of Elizabeth Bishop A minor biblical character A popular Victorian essayist A folkloric figure 24 What is ermine? A will An infant too young to walk A liquor commonly consumed in Nova Scotia A type of fur 25 Which of the following is a simile? "They invited Arthur to be / the smallest page at court." "his eyes were red glass" "the red-eyed loon eyed it/from his white, frozen lake." "He was all white, like a doll"
