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