Badger (John Clare poem) Quizzes

Badger (John Clare poem) The Badger

1 John Clare was a part of which literary movement?
Gothic

Romanticism

Modernist

Classical
2 Where was John Clare born?
London

An industrial city in the North

America, before moving back to England

A small English village
3 What was Clare's economic background?
Gentry

Working class

Upper-middle class

Lower-middle class
4 Which of the following was NOT a frequent subject of Clare's early poems?
Country sport

The lives of animals

Desire for the city

Rural traditions
5 When was John Clare born?
1823

1845

1784

1793
6 What are heroic couplets?
A pair of rhyming lines written in iambic pentameter

Two-line stanzas that do not rhyme

A pair of rhyming lines describing a battle

Lines of poetry in an alternating rhyme scheme, abab
7 How were heroic couplets perceived in the nineteenth century?
As conventional

As old-fashioned

As avant-garde

As infantile
8 How did John Clare's early work respond to previous poets?
He was ignorant of their work

He rejected their style

He occasionally alluded to their work

He borrowed extensively from them
9 Which of the following literary devices does John Clare employ in "The Badger"?
Synecdoche

Metaphor

Simile

Enjambment
10 In what voice is "The Badger" written?
First-person omniscient

Third-person omniscient

First-person limited

Second-person limited
11 What is the setting of "The Badger"?
A lonely house in the middle of nowhere

A dog-fighting arena

A crowded city street

A country village and the surrounding woods
12 Who is NOT individually characterized in "The Badger"?
The badger

The hunters

The poacher

The drunkard
13 What tense is the badger written in?
Habitual present

Future

Simple present

Simple past
14 Which of the following is a convincing argument for Clare's sympathy towards the badger?
Clare emphasizes negative human impact on the natural world

Clare centers the badger's experiences

Clare implies that the hunting practices are deceitful

All of the above
15 Who is the protagonist of "The Badger"?
The badger

The hunters

The women

The poacher
16 How does Clare present the practice of badger baiting?
As a necessary evil

As a natural country tradition

As a barbaric and outdated practice

As a chance to get rid of a pest
17 Which of the following is NOT an attribute of the badger that Clare celebrates?
Affection

Courage

Violence

Ferocity
18 In the second stanza, Clare writes "The bulldog knows his match and waxes cold,/The badger grins and never leaves his hold." This is an example of what literary device?
Simile

Parallelism

Alliteration

Allusion
19 Which of the following does NOT personify the badger?
The blackguard laughs and hurries on the fray

When badgers fight, then everyone's a foe

And leaves his hold and crackles, groans, and dies

The badger grins and never leaves his hold
20 What does the word "hold" symbolize in the second and third stanzas?
The men's grip on the badger

The badger's courage and ferocity

The badger's desire to return home

The badger's need for affection
21 How does the poem portray the badger's death?
As victorious, a cause for celebration

As unnecessary and cruel

As an ordinary part of country life

As tragic and noble
22 Which of the following is NOT a convincing argument for reading "The Badger" as condoning the practice it describes?
The poem celebrates the badger's death as noble

The poet's tone is distant

The poem sympathizes more with the men than the badger

The poem presents the hunt as routine
23 How does Clare convey the excitement of the hunt?
He employs a speaker who delights in the hunt

He rapidly switches between subjects, forcing the reader's attention to remain mobile

He uses dense figurative language, comparing the hunt to a great battle

All of the above
24 How does Clare portray violence in "The Badger"
As a general atmosphere

As an evil to be rooted out

As the exclusive fault of humans

As a battle between one beast and its single foe
25 What was the status of rural tradition in Clare's lifetime?
Largely a feature of the past due to industrialization

Stable and seemingly eternal

Being revived as people returned to the countryside from the cities

Still existing, but rapidly being displaced by industrialization

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