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 speaker

The King
2 Which of the following is a prominent motif in the poem?
Cold

Celestial bodies

Trees

Sleep
3 Where does the speaker think Arthur will go next?
To the frozen lake

To be buried in the cemetery

To join the royal court

To bed upstairs
4 Which best describes the speaker?
Sad

Naive

Devastated

Ferocious
5 Who shot the loon?
The speaker

The speaker's father

Uncle Arthur

Arthur
6 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic hexameter

Trochaic pentameter

It has no single consistent meter

Iambic pentameter
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?
Two stanzas of fourteen lines each, followed by two stanzas of seven lines each

Five stanzas of ten lines each

Four stanzas of seven lines each

Six stanzas of varied length
9 When was this poem first published in a book?
1965

1891

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?
An open book

A frozen lake

A dinner plate

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

A London neighborhood

A town in Wales

A city in the Midwestern U.S.
13 Which royal figure is NOT mentioned in the poem?
King George

Queen Mary

Princess Alexandra

Queen Victoria
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 type of bird

A shroud

A mourning parent

A funeral dirge
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?
Springtime

Femininity and romance

Youth and life

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

At a wake

At a hospital

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

Alliteration

Simile

Understatement
20 What does the word "chromograph" mean?
Device used for playing recorded music

Early type of color photograph

Early telephone model

Coffin
21 Who is the poem's speaker?
The father of a dead child

A young child

A page in the British royal court

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

Fall

Summer

Winter
23 Who is Jack Frost?
A folkloric figure

A popular Victorian essayist

A minor biblical character

A real-life childhood friend of Elizabeth Bishop
24 What is ermine?
A will

A liquor commonly consumed in Nova Scotia

An infant too young to walk

A type of fur
25 Which of the following is a simile?
"the red-eyed loon eyed it/from his white, frozen lake."

"They invited Arthur to be / the smallest page at court."

"his eyes were red glass"

"He was all white, like a doll"

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