Crusoe in England Quizzes

Crusoe in England Quiz

1 What are "polliwogs"?
Tadpoles

Strong sea winds

Goats

Nonsensical ideas
2 How many stanzas are in this poem?
12

9

6

7
3 Which animals are NOT on the island with Crusoe?
Birds

Turtles

Monkeys

Goats
4 On which early novel is this poem based?
Robinson Crusoe

Tom Jones

Tristram Shandy

Pamela
5 To what does Crusoe compare the island's snails?
Guano

Children

Goats

Irises
6 Which of the following is NOT personified in this poem?
The knife

The waterspouts

The volcanoes

The trousers
7 Crusoe describes the volcanic craters as what?
Ravenous

Parched

Anxious

Longing
8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions?
To his biographer

To the navy

To a museum

To Friday's family
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 Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Geography III

One Art

The Collected Works of Elizabeth Bishop
11 Crusoe compares the waterspouts he watches to what?
Priests and chimneys

Children and fairies

Snakes and rainbows

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

Quatrains

There is no single stanza type

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

Iambic hexameter

Iambic pentameter

It has no single meter but frequently uses iambic pentameter
14 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?
It contains no rhyme at all

ABABCDCD

AABB CCDD

It contains rhyme but follows no set scheme
15 Which most closely fits Crusoe's description of the island?
It is thrilling and unpredictable

It is scary at first but ultimately safe

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

It is boring but frightening
16 What is the poem's climax?
Crusoe's rescue

The shipwreck

Crusoe's discovery of the parasol

Crusoe and Friday's meeting
17 Who is Friday?
A member of the shipwrecked crew

An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship

An indigenous man who Crusoe befriends

Crusoe's brother
18 This poem quotes a work by which writer?
Robert Lowell

William Wordsworth

Aphra Behn

Charles Dickens
19 Which is NOT a major theme of this poem?
Memory

Isolation

Love and grief

Feminism and womanhood
20 When was this poem written?
1719

2004

1976

1812
21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
"bored"

"Hiss"

"crucifix"

"stinging"
22 What is "basalt"?
An island formation

A type of volcanic rock

An eighteenth-century ship

A poetic form
23 Where is the speaker at the time of the poem's narration?
Friday's house

England

A deserted island

A ship at sea
24 What are "rollers" as described in this poem?
An alcoholic beverage

Waves

A tool to curl hair

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

A giant walking

A tree

A teakettle

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