First Death in Nova Scotia Quizzes

First Death in Nova Scotia Quiz

1 Who has died in the poem?
The speaker's mother

The speaker

The King

The speaker's cousin
2 Which of the following is a prominent motif in the poem?
Sleep

Cold

Trees

Celestial bodies
3 Where does the speaker think Arthur will go next?
To bed upstairs

To be buried in the cemetery

To the frozen lake

To join the royal court
4 Which best describes the speaker?
Devastated

Ferocious

Sad

Naive
5 Who shot the loon?
The speaker

The speaker's father

Uncle Arthur

Arthur
6 What is the poem's meter?
Iambic pentameter

Iambic hexameter

It has no single consistent meter

Trochaic pentameter
7 When does this poem evidently take place?
The 2010s

The early twentieth century

The Tudor era

The early Victorian era
8 What is the poem's structure?
Six stanzas of varied length

Five stanzas of ten lines each

Two stanzas of fourteen lines each, followed by two stanzas of seven lines each

Four stanzas of seven lines each
9 When was this poem first published in a book?
1978

1891

1965

1912
10 Which of the following colors appear as motifs?
Red and white

Black and white

Black and blue

Blue and yellow
11 The speaker uses a metaphor to compare a table to what?
A person's back

An open book

A dinner plate

A frozen lake
12 What is Nova Scotia?
A town in Wales

A Canadian provice

A London neighborhood

A city in the Midwestern U.S.
13 Which royal figure is NOT mentioned in the poem?
King George

Queen Victoria

Queen Mary

Princess Alexandra
14 The statement "Arthur's coffin was / a little frosted cake" is an instance of what?
Metaphor

Simile

Hyperbole

Personification
15 What is a loon?
A shroud

A funeral dirge

A mourning parent

A type of bird
16 Which of the following is a prominent theme of the poem?
Art and music

Childhood

Christianity

Nature
17 What does the flower most closely symbolize?
Death and purity

Springtime

Youth and life

Femininity and romance
18 Where does the poem take place?
At a hospital

At a wake

At a birthday party

At a burial
19 The lines "stood a stuffed loon / shot and stuffed" feature which of the following?
Alliteration

Understatement

Synecdoche

Simile
20 What does the word "chromograph" mean?
Coffin

Device used for playing recorded music

Early type of color photograph

Early telephone model
21 Who is the poem's speaker?
A page in the British royal court

A dead woman

A young child

The father of a dead child
22 In which season does this poem seemingly take place?
Summer

Fall

Spring

Winter
23 Who is Jack Frost?
A popular Victorian essayist

A folkloric figure

A minor biblical character

A real-life childhood friend of Elizabeth Bishop
24 What is ermine?
An infant too young to walk

A type of fur

A liquor commonly consumed in Nova Scotia

A will
25 Which of the following is a simile?
"the red-eyed loon eyed it/from his white, frozen lake."

"He was all white, like a doll"

"They invited Arthur to be / the smallest page at court."

"his eyes were red glass"

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