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