Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?
Strong sea winds

Tadpoles

Nonsensical ideas

Goats
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?
12

9

7

6
3 Which animals are NOT on the island with Crusoe?
Goats

Birds

Turtles

Monkeys
4 On which early novel is this poem based?
Pamela

Tom Jones

Tristram Shandy

Robinson Crusoe
5 To what does Crusoe compare the island's snails?
Irises

Goats

Guano

Children
6 Which of the following is NOT personified in this poem?
The trousers

The knife

The waterspouts

The volcanoes
7 Crusoe describes the volcanic craters as what?
Parched

Longing

Ravenous

Anxious
8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions?
To Friday's family

To the navy

To his biographer

To a museum
9 What form does this poem take?
Sestina

Villanelle

It follows no set form

Ghazal
10 In which collection did this poem first appear?
The Collected Works of Elizabeth Bishop

Geography III

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

One Art
11 Crusoe compares the waterspouts he watches to what?
Priests and chimneys

Snakes and rainbows

Children and fairies

Flutes and knives
12 What types of stanzas make up this poem?
Sestets

Couplets

There is no single stanza type

Quatrains
13 What is the poem's meter?
Anapestic pentameter

Iambic pentameter

It has no single meter but frequently uses iambic pentameter

Iambic hexameter
14 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
AABB CCDD

It contains no rhyme at all

It contains rhyme but follows no set scheme

ABABCDCD
15 Which most closely fits Crusoe's description of the island?
It is scary at first but ultimately safe

It is calm, quiet, and peaceful to the point of monotony

It is boring but frightening

It is thrilling and unpredictable
16 What is the poem's climax?
Crusoe's discovery of the parasol

The shipwreck

Crusoe and Friday's meeting

Crusoe's rescue
17 Who is Friday?
Crusoe's brother

An indigenous man who Crusoe befriends

A member of the shipwrecked crew

An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship
18 This poem quotes a work by which writer?
William Wordsworth

Aphra Behn

Robert Lowell

Charles Dickens
19 Which is NOT a major theme of this poem?
Love and grief

Memory

Feminism and womanhood

Isolation
20 When was this poem written?
1812

1719

2004

1976
21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
"Hiss"

"bored"

"stinging"

"crucifix"
22 What is "basalt"?
An eighteenth-century ship

A poetic form

An island formation

A type of volcanic rock
23 Where is the speaker at the time of the poem's narration?
A ship at sea

England

Friday's house

A deserted island
24 What are "rollers" as described in this poem?
Waves

A tool to curl hair

An alcoholic beverage

A flock of birds
25 Crusoe compares the sound of turtles to which of the following?
A giant walking

A teakettle

A drum

A tree

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