1 What does the speaker refer to as a "cyclops' eye?" The fir trees A bog The eye of the Great Irish Elk A tarn 2 Which of the following is NOT dug out of the turf? Tree trunks Coal Century-old butter A skeleton of the Great Irish Elk 3 What does the speaker compare the ground to? Milk Cheese Butter Stone 4 What kind of trees are dug up out of the peat? Oak Fir Pine Cherry 5 "The _____ might be Atlantic seepage." oasis bogholes tarn butter 6 This poem is told from the first-person perspective. False True 7 What "keeps crusting/Between the sights of the sun"? The bog The elk's skeleton The tree trunks The speaker's eye 8 How old is the butter found in the peat? The speaker does not know Two years Ten years Over a hundred years 9 Who is the speaker? An elderly farmer Heaney A young girl The speaker is unspecified 10 What does the narrator compare "an astounding crate of air" to? The tarn The unfenced country The skeleton of a man The Great Irish Elk's skeleton 11 What is described as "soft as pulp"? The century-old butter The speaker's hands The setting sun The fir trees dug out of the turf 12 What color is the butter pulled out of the peat? White Green with mold Murky brown Black 13 The speaker describes men digging for coal in the bogland. False True 14 Where does this poem take place? Antarctica North America Ireland England 15 "Every layer they strip/Seems camped on before." The layers referred to here are layers in the bogs. True False 16 This poem celebrates the bogs of Ireland as an important natural resource. True False 17 This poem mentions several objects that are dug from where they were preserved in the bogs. True False 18 What do "they" do with the skeleton of the Great Irish Elk? They ignore the finding They are shocked by how small it is They put it together on display They bury it 19 What does the speaker say about prairies? They slice the sun when it sets on the horizon They are plentiful in Ireland They might be Atlantic seepage They are less useful than bogs 20 What in this poem is described as "bottomless"? The speaker's fear The cyclops' eye The big sun The wet center of the bogholes 21 What does the speaker refer to as "salty and white?" The cyclops' eye The butter The crusty top of the bogs The froth on the ocean 22 Which of the following does this poem use? Iambic pentameter The first-person plural perspective An a-b-a-b rhyme scheme A villanelle format 23 This poem takes place in the prairies of North America. False True 24 The bogs provide a very efficient energy source for the country's inhabitants. True False 25 "Our _______ keep striking/Inwards and downwards,/Every layer they strip/Seems camped on before." soldiers fathers pioneers wives