Death of a Naturalist Quizzes

Death of a Naturalist Quiz

1 What does the speaker take from the flax-dam?
Frogspawn

A clump of rotting flax

Several of the frogs

Bluebottle larvae
2 What does the character Miss Walls do in the poem?
She punishes the speaker for bringing frog tadpoles to class.

She pushes the speaker into the flax-dam.

She rescues the speaker from the bullfrogs.

She describes the life of the frogs.
3 What does the speaker take from the flax-dam?
Bluebottle larvae

Several of the frogs

A clump of rotting flax

Frogspawn
4 Who or what invades the flax-dam?
The frogs

The British army

The dragonflies

The tadpoles
5 Who are "the great slime kings?"
The teachers at school

The speaker and his friends

The speaker's parents

The frogs
6 The frogspawn turns green in the sun and brown in the rain.

False

True
7 What does "the thick warm slobber" refer to?
The jam the speaker eats at school

The rotting flax

The frogspawn

The saliva of the speaker's childhood dog
8 What does the speaker compare to sails?
The frogs' dewlaps

The skirts of his teacher Miss Walls

Gauze

The window's curtains
9 When in the speaker's life does this poem take place?
In the speaker's imagination

In the speaker's projected future

In the speaker's childhood

In the present moment
10 The title of this poem refers to the death of someone the speaker cares deeply about.
True

False
11 Where does the speaker keep the frogspawn?
At home

At school

In jampots

All of the above
12 What does the speaker compare to gauze in the poem?
The texture of the frogspawn.

The sound of the croaking frogs.

The screen in the window next to the frogspawn.

The sound of the bluebottles.
13 How is the word "rank" used in this poem?
To compare the frogs to an army.

To describe how the speaker chooses his favorite creatures in the flax-dam.

To describe the foul smell of the fertilizer in the fields.

To describe how Miss Walls's class is organized.
14 How old is the speaker of the poem currently (at the time of writing this poem)?
The speaker's current age is not specified

Thirty-five

Seventy-five

Thirteen
15 What is described as "[growing]...In the shade of the banks"?
The frogspawn

The hedges

The flax

The tadpoles
16 During which season does this poem most likely occur?
Fall

Winter

Spring

Summer
17 What happens at the end of the poem?
The speaker returns the tadpoles to the flax-dam.

The speaker dips his hand into the frogspawn, and it clutches him.

The speaker flees the flax-dam.

The speaker is attacked by the frogs.
18 How does the speaker feel at the end of the poem?
Ecstatic and invigorated

Apprehensive and curious

Disgusted and afraid

Shaken and exhausted
19 Which of the following is NOT a word used to describe the frogspawn?
Slime

Dots

Slobber

Specks
20 This poem is in iambic pentameter.

True

False
21 What produces the "bass chorus" that the speaker mentions?
The schoolchildren

The frogspawn

The bluebottles

The bullfrogs
22 What sorts of bugs does the speaker see in the flax-dam?
Bluebottles, mosquitoes, and beetles

Bluebottles, dragonflies, and butterflies

Water spiders, dragonflies, and beetles

Moths, butterflies, and water spiders
23 Where is the cow dung that the speaker mentions in the second stanza?
The speaker's backyard at home

The fields

In the schoolyard

The flax-dam
24 What in this poem "sweltered in the punishing sun"?
The flax-dam

The speaker

The frogs

Miss Walls
25 What does the speaker make "jampotfuls" of?
Clotted water

Jam

Bluebottle larvae

Frogspawn

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