First Death in Nova Scotia Quizzes

First Death in Nova Scotia Quiz

1 Who has died in the poem?
The speaker's cousin

The speaker's mother

The King

The speaker
2 Which of the following is a prominent motif in the poem?
Celestial bodies

Sleep

Trees

Cold
3 Where does the speaker think Arthur will go next?
To be buried in the cemetery

To the frozen lake

To join the royal court

To bed upstairs
4 Which best describes the speaker?
Devastated

Naive

Sad

Ferocious
5 Who shot the loon?
The speaker

Uncle Arthur

The speaker's father

Arthur
6 What is the poem's meter?
It has no single consistent meter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic hexameter

Trochaic pentameter
7 When does this poem evidently take place?
The Tudor era

The early Victorian era

The early twentieth century

The 2010s
8 What is the poem's structure?
Six stanzas of varied length

Five stanzas of ten lines each

Two stanzas of fourteen lines each, followed by two stanzas of seven lines each

Four stanzas of seven lines each
9 When was this poem first published in a book?
1978

1912

1965

1891
10 Which of the following colors appear as motifs?
Red and white

Blue and yellow

Black and blue

Black and white
11 The speaker uses a metaphor to compare a table to what?
A frozen lake

An open book

A dinner plate

A person's back
12 What is Nova Scotia?
A Canadian provice

A London neighborhood

A city in the Midwestern U.S.

A town in Wales
13 Which royal figure is NOT mentioned in the poem?
Princess Alexandra

Queen Mary

Queen Victoria

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 mourning parent

A funeral dirge

A type of bird

A shroud
16 Which of the following is a prominent theme of the poem?
Art and music

Nature

Christianity

Childhood
17 What does the flower most closely symbolize?
Youth and life

Springtime

Femininity and romance

Death and purity
18 Where does the poem take place?
At a hospital

At a wake

At a burial

At a birthday party
19 The lines "stood a stuffed loon / shot and stuffed" feature which of the following?
Synecdoche

Alliteration

Understatement

Simile
20 What does the word "chromograph" mean?
Coffin

Device used for playing recorded music

Early telephone model

Early type of color photograph
21 Who is the poem's speaker?
A young child

A page in the British royal court

A dead woman

The father of a dead child
22 In which season does this poem seemingly take place?
Fall

Winter

Summer

Spring
23 Who is Jack Frost?
A folkloric figure

A popular Victorian essayist

A real-life childhood friend of Elizabeth Bishop

A minor biblical character
24 What is ermine?
A liquor commonly consumed in Nova Scotia

An infant too young to walk

A will

A type of fur
25 Which of the following is a simile?
"They invited Arthur to be / the smallest page at court."

"the red-eyed loon eyed it/from his white, frozen lake."

"his eyes were red glass"

"He was all white, like a doll"

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