1 What are "polliwogs"? Goats Nonsensical ideas Strong sea winds Tadpoles 2 How many stanzas are in this poem? 7 6 9 12 3 Which animals are NOT on the island with Crusoe? Turtles Birds Goats Monkeys 4 On which early novel is this poem based? Tom Jones Pamela Tristram Shandy Robinson Crusoe 5 To what does Crusoe compare the island's snails? Goats Children Irises Guano 6 Which of the following is NOT personified in this poem? The waterspouts The volcanoes The knife The trousers 7 Crusoe describes the volcanic craters as what? Parched Anxious Ravenous Longing 8 Where has Crusoe promised to send his possessions? To his biographer To Friday's family To the navy To a museum 9 What form does this poem take? Villanelle Ghazal It follows no set form Sestina 10 In which collection did this poem first appear? One Art The Collected Works of Elizabeth Bishop Geography III The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe 11 Crusoe compares the waterspouts he watches to what? Flutes and knives Children and fairies Priests and chimneys Snakes and rainbows 12 What types of stanzas make up this poem? Quatrains There is no single stanza type Sestets Couplets 13 What is the poem's meter? It has no single meter but frequently uses iambic pentameter Anapestic pentameter Iambic hexameter Iambic pentameter 14 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? It contains rhyme but follows no set scheme It contains no rhyme at all ABABCDCD AABB CCDD 15 Which most closely fits Crusoe's description of the island? It is thrilling and unpredictable It is calm, quiet, and peaceful to the point of monotony It is scary at first but ultimately safe It is boring but frightening 16 What is the poem's climax? Crusoe's rescue Crusoe and Friday's meeting Crusoe's discovery of the parasol The shipwreck 17 Who is Friday? An indigenous man who Crusoe befriends A member of the shipwrecked crew An enslaved man abducted onto Crusoe's ship Crusoe's brother 18 This poem quotes a work by which writer? Charles Dickens Robert Lowell Aphra Behn William Wordsworth 19 Which is NOT a major theme of this poem? Feminism and womanhood Isolation Love and grief Memory 20 When was this poem written? 1719 1812 1976 2004 21 Which is an example of onomatopoeia? "crucifix" "Hiss" "stinging" "bored" 22 What is "basalt"? An island formation An eighteenth-century ship A type of volcanic rock A poetic form 23 Where is the speaker at the time of the poem's narration? A deserted island A ship at sea Friday's house England 24 What are "rollers" as described in this poem? A tool to curl hair Waves An alcoholic beverage A flock of birds 25 Crusoe compares the sound of turtles to which of the following? A teakettle A tree A giant walking A drum