Bogland Quizzes

Bogland Quiz

1 What does the speaker refer to as a "cyclops' eye?"
A bog

A tarn

The fir trees

The eye of the Great Irish Elk
2 Which of the following is NOT dug out of the turf?
Coal

A skeleton of the Great Irish Elk

Tree trunks

Century-old butter
3 What does the speaker compare the ground to?
Milk

Butter

Cheese

Stone
4 What kind of trees are dug up out of the peat?
Cherry

Oak

Pine

Fir
5 "The _____ might be Atlantic seepage."
tarn

bogholes

oasis

butter
6 This poem is told from the first-person perspective.

True

False
7 What "keeps crusting/Between the sights of the sun"?
The tree trunks

The bog

The speaker's eye

The elk's skeleton
8 How old is the butter found in the peat?
Over a hundred years

Ten years

The speaker does not know

Two years
9 Who is the speaker?
An elderly farmer

The speaker is unspecified

Heaney

A young girl
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 fir trees dug out of the turf

The century-old butter

The setting sun

The speaker's hands
12 What color is the butter pulled out of the peat?
Murky brown

Black

Green with mold

White
13 The speaker describes men digging for coal in the bogland.
True

False
14 Where does this poem take place?
North America

Ireland

England

Antarctica
15 "Every layer they strip/Seems camped on before." The layers referred to here are layers in the bogs.

False

True
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.
False

True
18 What do "they" do with the skeleton of the Great Irish Elk?
They are shocked by how small it is

They put it together on display

They ignore the finding

They bury it
19 What does the speaker say about prairies?
They are less useful than bogs

They slice the sun when it sets on the horizon

They are plentiful in Ireland

They might be Atlantic seepage
20 What in this poem is described as "bottomless"?
The cyclops' eye

The wet center of the bogholes

The big sun

The speaker's fear
21 What does the speaker refer to as "salty and white?"
The froth on the ocean

The butter

The crusty top of the bogs

The cyclops' eye
22 Which of the following does this poem use?
An a-b-a-b rhyme scheme

A villanelle format

The first-person plural perspective

Iambic pentameter
23 This poem takes place in the prairies of North America.
True

False
24 The bogs provide a very efficient energy source for the country's inhabitants.
False

True
25 "Our _______ keep striking/Inwards and downwards,/Every layer they strip/Seems camped on before."
soldiers

fathers

pioneers

wives

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