Daniel Defoe Trivia

1. What did Crusoe's father tell Crusoe he would do if Crusoe did not go to sea?

From Quiz Stranded with Robinson Crusoe

Answer: help him get started

Crusoe's father didn't want Crusoe going to sea because he believed that bad things would happen to Crusoe. But Crusoe disobeyed.

From Quiz Reliving "Robinson Crusoe"

Answer: Robinson himself

"Robinson Crusoe" is narrated from the first-person point of view.

From Quiz Stranded with Robinson Crusoe

Answer: a sheep

Crusoe found a cat on the ship and then he found an unexpected present later in the book - kittens! He found his parrot on the opposite side of the island and beat it over the head to capture it. And Crusoe used to kill goats, but he soon realized that it would be easier to capture and tame them so he could get their milk.

From Quiz Reliving "Robinson Crusoe"

Answer: middle class

The author, Daniel Defoe, on the other hand, was constantly running into financial problems, and eventually died, hiding from debt collectors.

From Quiz Stranded with Robinson Crusoe

Answer: notched them on a wooden stake

Crusoe did his best to notch the number of days on a wooden stake, but he ended up missing days and did not know how long he had been stranded until he was rescued.

From Quiz Reliving "Robinson Crusoe"

Answer: Both of Robinson's older brothers were killed or lost, and he did not want to lose a third son.

The older brother was killed in a war, and the other simply disappeared and was never heard from again.

From Quiz Stranded with Robinson Crusoe

Answer: a wheelbarrow

Crusoe had many crazy attempts while trying to make all these items. He disliked what his table and chairs looked like but still used them because that's all he was able to create and he couldn't make pottery that actually resembled any real pottery. He did actually try to make a wheelbarrow, but he couldn't find a way to make the wheel.

From Quiz Reliving "Robinson Crusoe"

Answer: Moorish pirates

This capture, enslavement, and eventual escape occurred prior to Crusoe's shipwreck on the island.

From Quiz Stranded with Robinson Crusoe

Answer: barley

This was an amazing event, because not only was the climate of the island unsuitable for barley to be grown, but the barley looked too old and mouldy to be used.

From Quiz Reliving "Robinson Crusoe"

Answer: He spent the day in prayer, fasting, and asking God for forgiveness of his sins.

"Robinson Crusoe" is a story of a man without much initial concern for God who discovers, through great adversity, his need for repentence from his personal willfulness, disobedience, and pride.

From Quiz Stranded with Robinson Crusoe

Answer: turtle

Turtles were hard to come by on Crusoe's side of the island. On the opposite side of the island there were a lot of turtles, but it was too hard to drag turtles from this other side to his home.

From Quiz Reliving "Robinson Crusoe"

Answer: wild hares

Although the hares were eating his crops, at one point in the story Robinson does get to see penguins. This is due to how far south the island is in the Pacific, off the coast of South America.

From Quiz Stranded with Robinson Crusoe

Answer: Friday

Crusoe rescued Friday from being eaten by a tribe of cannibals. Friday pledged to serve Crusoe by bowing down at Crusoe's feet and placing one of Crusoe's feet on top of his head. But Friday soon became a friend instead of a servant.

From Quiz Reliving "Robinson Crusoe"

Answer: a human footprint

When Crusoe sees that the footprint is not his own, he realizes that someone, possibly cannibals from a neighboring island, have started coming to his island home.

From Quiz Stranded with Robinson Crusoe

Answer: a footprint

Crusoe became terrfied because he thought that he was going to be invaded by savages. He thought it was funny because the one thing he had been hoping for (a companion) is the one thing that he also dreaded.

From Quiz Reliving "Robinson Crusoe"

Answer: an English ship

Although Crusoe thinks this might be his chance for rescue, he also has a sense, an inner warning, that something is amiss about this ship.

From Quiz Stranded with Robinson Crusoe

Answer: They rescued a ship's captain from mutineers

Crusoe and Friday saw that the captain was in trouble and went to help him. The funny thing is that the captain wanted to know if he was talking to a god or an angel.

From Quiz Reliving "Robinson Crusoe"

Answer: 28 years

In all, Crusoe was away from England for a total of 35 years.

From Quiz Stranded with Robinson Crusoe

Answer: 28 years and two months

Crusoe came back to England on June 11. He had been stranded on the island for 28 years and away from England for 35 years.

From Quiz Reliving "Robinson Crusoe"

Answer: He went on more adventures, including revisiting "his" island.

Despite the shipwreck and many, many years on his island, Crusoe still had a desire to see the world, and even went back to see how things were on his old stomping grounds!

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