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Shrub Street Friday Quiz 2

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which kind of poem consists of 3 lines and 17 syllables?

a)

haiku

b)

rhyme

c)

kenning

d)

sonnet

2.

Complete this famous line from a poem - 'I wandered lonely as a .....?'

a)

clown

b)

cloud

c)

sheep

d)

shadow

3.

In the Ning Nang Nong - what do the teapots do?

a)

jabber jibber joo

b)

jibber jabber joo

c)

joober jibber ja

d)

jabber joober jib

4.

It is believed that the vikings started which form of poetry?

a)

haiku

b)

kenning

c)

riddle

d)

rhyme

5.

Who wrote 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt?'

a)

Roald Dahl

b)

James Carter

c)

Michael Rosen

d)

Roger McGough

6.

The nonsense poem, The Jabberwocky, was written by...

a)

Spike Milligan

b)

Edward Lear

c)

Lewis Carroll

d)

William Shakespeare

7.

In the Owl and the Pussycat, what colour was their boat?

a)

sky- blue

b)

pea - green

c)

sea - green

d)

ocean - blue

8.

Roald Dahl wrote: "As soon as Wolf began to feel/that he would like a decent meal/he went and knocked on Grandma's door/when Grandma opened it, she saw..."

a)

"a hairy snout and scary eyes"

b)

"very scary teeth and claws"

c)

"a wolf, and wouldn't let him in"

d)

"the sharp white teeth, the horrid grin"

9.

Who wrote 'The Cat in the Hat'?

a)

Dr Seuss

b)

Dr Zeus

c)

Dr Soos

d)

Dr Zoos

10.

Once upon a midnight dreary,

While I pondered, weak and weary,

Is the beginning of which poem?

a)

The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

b)

Invictus by William Ernest Henley

c)

No Man is an Island by John Donne

d)

John Barleycorn by Robert Burns

11.

What was the title of Rudyard Kipling's famous poem?

a)

if

b)

is

c)

a

d)

an

12.

Which type of flower is mention in the John McCrae poem 'In Flanders Fields'?

a)

Carnation

b)

Tulip

c)

Poppy

d)

Rose

13.

What is the subject of this year's National Poetry Day?

a)

sound

b)

vision

c)

rhyme

d)

rhythm

14.

In the rhyme, 'The Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly'. How many creatures did she eat altogether?

a)

7

b)

8

c)

9

d)

10

15.

Complete the limerick...

There was a young lady named Bright

who travelled much faster than light.

She set out one day

in a relative way,

a)

and came back the previous night.

b)

and her was really white.

c)

but her shoes were very tight.

d)

my favourite teacher is Mr Wright.

16.

Which of the colours below are impossible to rhyme with?

a)

blue

b)

purple

c)

orange

d)

silver

17.

Complete the verse of 'Aliens Stole My Underpants' By Brian Moses

And I’ve always wondered why

on their journey from the stars,

these aliens stole my underpants

and took them back to ....

a)

Ours

b)

Mars

c)

Grandma's

d)

Space

18.

What is special about narrative poetry?

a)

The subject is true

b)

It tells a story

c)

It has 900 words

d)

It makes no sense

19.

TS Eliot wrote about an animal called MaCavity, the Mystery ...

a)

dog

b)

cat

c)

pig

d)

eel

20.

William Shakespeare famously wrote which type of poetry?

a)

kennings

b)

limericks

c)

haikus

d)

sonnets

21.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

.....................................................................

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.

a)

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

b)

Hip hip hip hip hooray

c)

I like to move it, move it

d)

Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers

22.

Who is this?

a)

Roald Dahl

b)

Spike Milligan

c)

Boris Johnson

d)

James Carter

23.

Which of the kennings below describes a large car?

a)

An egg-chaser

b)

A people-carrier

c)

An ankle-biter

d)

A show-stopper

24.

In Roald Dahl's version of 'Snow White and the 7 Dwarves' what job did the dwarves do?

a)

They were jockeys

b)

They were miners

c)

They were footballers

d)

They were dancers

25.

How many syllables are there in the word watermelon?

a)

2

b)

3

c)

4

d)

5

26.

Which topic is James Carter's favourite for writing poems?

a)

Sport

b)

Space

c)

Spiders

d)

Sponges

27.

The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees.

The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.

The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,

And the ...................... came riding—

Riding—riding—

The ................... came riding, up to the old inn-door.


Which word is missing from above

a)

jockey

b)

highwayman

c)

motorcyclist

d)

cowboy

28.

Which country do haikus originate from?

a)

China

b)

Japan

c)

Italy

d)

Spain

29.

Which of these sentences contains a simile?

a)

The cold, black night was wet and windy.

b)

The cold, black night was as wet and windy as a dragon's sneeze.

c)

The cold black night was a wet and windy dragon's sneeze.

d)

The dragon's sneeze was like wet and windy.

30.

Miss Greet read out a poem called 'Who Knows?' but who wrote it?

a)

Liz Brownlee

b)

Lee Brownliz

c)

Liz Greenlee

d)

Liz Bluelee