First Death in Nova Scotia Quizzes

First Death in Nova Scotia Quiz

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

The King

The speaker

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

Cold

Celestial bodies

Sleep
3 Where does the speaker think Arthur will go next?
To be buried in the cemetery

To join the royal court

To bed upstairs

To the frozen lake
4 Which best describes the speaker?
Ferocious

Naive

Devastated

Sad
5 Who shot the loon?
Arthur

Uncle Arthur

The speaker

The speaker's father
6 What is the poem's meter?
It has no single consistent meter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic hexameter

Trochaic pentameter
7 When does this poem evidently take place?
The early twentieth century

The 2010s

The Tudor era

The early Victorian era
8 What is the poem's structure?
Two stanzas of fourteen lines each, followed by two stanzas of seven lines each

Five stanzas of ten lines each

Six stanzas of varied length

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

1965

1891

1912
10 Which of the following colors appear as motifs?
Blue and yellow

Red and white

Black and blue

Black and white
11 The speaker uses a metaphor to compare a table to what?
A dinner plate

A frozen lake

An open book

A person's back
12 What is Nova Scotia?
A London neighborhood

A city in the Midwestern U.S.

A Canadian provice

A town in Wales
13 Which royal figure is NOT mentioned in the poem?
Princess Alexandra

Queen Victoria

King George

Queen Mary
14 The statement "Arthur's coffin was / a little frosted cake" is an instance of what?
Hyperbole

Metaphor

Simile

Personification
15 What is a loon?
A mourning parent

A type of bird

A funeral dirge

A shroud
16 Which of the following is a prominent theme of the poem?
Childhood

Nature

Christianity

Art and music
17 What does the flower most closely symbolize?
Femininity and romance

Youth and life

Death and purity

Springtime
18 Where does the poem take place?
At a wake

At a hospital

At a birthday party

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

Simile

Alliteration

Synecdoche
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 young child

A dead woman

The father of a dead child

A page in the British royal court
22 In which season does this poem seemingly take place?
Fall

Winter

Spring

Summer
23 Who is Jack Frost?
A real-life childhood friend of Elizabeth Bishop

A minor biblical character

A folkloric figure

A popular Victorian essayist
24 What is ermine?
A will

An infant too young to walk

A type of fur

A liquor commonly consumed in Nova Scotia
25 Which of the following is a simile?
"He was all white, like a doll"

"his eyes were red glass"

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

"the red-eyed loon eyed it/from his white, frozen lake."

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