First Death in Nova Scotia Quizzes

First Death in Nova Scotia Quiz

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

The speaker's cousin

The King

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

Sleep

Cold

Trees
3 Where does the speaker think Arthur will go next?
To join the royal court

To bed upstairs

To be buried in the cemetery

To the frozen lake
4 Which best describes the speaker?
Sad

Naive

Ferocious

Devastated
5 Who shot the loon?
The speaker

Uncle Arthur

The speaker's father

Arthur
6 What is the poem's meter?
Trochaic pentameter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic hexameter

It has no single consistent meter
7 When does this poem evidently take place?
The early Victorian era

The early twentieth century

The Tudor era

The 2010s
8 What is the poem's structure?
Four stanzas of seven lines each

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
9 When was this poem first published in a book?
1891

1912

1965

1978
10 Which of the following colors appear as motifs?
Black and white

Blue and yellow

Black and blue

Red and white
11 The speaker uses a metaphor to compare a table to what?
An open book

A dinner plate

A person's back

A frozen lake
12 What is Nova Scotia?
A Canadian provice

A city in the Midwestern U.S.

A London neighborhood

A town in Wales
13 Which royal figure is NOT mentioned in the poem?
King George

Princess Alexandra

Queen Victoria

Queen Mary
14 The statement "Arthur's coffin was / a little frosted cake" is an instance of what?
Metaphor

Hyperbole

Simile

Personification
15 What is a loon?
A shroud

A mourning parent

A funeral dirge

A type of bird
16 Which of the following is a prominent theme of the poem?
Childhood

Nature

Christianity

Art and music
17 What does the flower most closely symbolize?
Springtime

Youth and life

Death and purity

Femininity and romance
18 Where does the poem take place?
At a wake

At a birthday party

At a burial

At a hospital
19 The lines "stood a stuffed loon / shot and stuffed" feature which of the following?
Simile

Synecdoche

Alliteration

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

Early telephone model

Early type of color photograph

Device used for playing recorded music
21 Who is the poem's speaker?
A page in the British royal court

A young child

The father of a dead child

A dead woman
22 In which season does this poem seemingly take place?
Fall

Winter

Summer

Spring
23 Who is Jack Frost?
A real-life childhood friend of Elizabeth Bishop

A popular Victorian essayist

A folkloric figure

A minor biblical character
24 What is ermine?
An infant too young to walk

A liquor commonly consumed in Nova Scotia

A type of fur

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

"He was all white, like a doll"

"his eyes were red glass"

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

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