Badger (John Clare poem) Quizzes

Badger (John Clare poem) The Badger

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

Gothic

Modernist

Romanticism
2 Where was John Clare born?
America, before moving back to England

An industrial city in the North

London

A small English village
3 What was Clare's economic background?
Upper-middle class

Gentry

Lower-middle class

Working class
4 Which of the following was NOT a frequent subject of Clare's early poems?
Desire for the city

The lives of animals

Country sport

Rural traditions
5 When was John Clare born?
1784

1793

1823

1845
6 What are heroic couplets?
A pair of rhyming lines written in iambic pentameter

Lines of poetry in an alternating rhyme scheme, abab

Two-line stanzas that do not rhyme

A pair of rhyming lines describing a battle
7 How were heroic couplets perceived in the nineteenth century?
As avant-garde

As conventional

As infantile

As old-fashioned
8 How did John Clare's early work respond to previous poets?
He rejected their style

He borrowed extensively from them

He was ignorant of their work

He occasionally alluded to their work
9 Which of the following literary devices does John Clare employ in "The Badger"?
Metaphor

Simile

Synecdoche

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

Second-person limited

First-person omniscient

Third-person omniscient
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 drunkard

The hunters

The poacher

The badger
13 What tense is the badger written in?
Simple present

Future

Simple past

Habitual present
14 Which of the following is a convincing argument for Clare's sympathy towards the badger?
Clare implies that the hunting practices are deceitful

Clare emphasizes negative human impact on the natural world

Clare centers the badger's experiences

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

The badger

The poacher

The hunters
16 How does Clare present the practice of badger baiting?
As a chance to get rid of a pest

As a barbaric and outdated practice

As a necessary evil

As a natural country tradition
17 Which of the following is NOT an attribute of the badger that Clare celebrates?
Affection

Violence

Courage

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?
Alliteration

Parallelism

Simile

Allusion
19 Which of the following does NOT personify the badger?
The badger grins and never leaves his hold

The blackguard laughs and hurries on the fray

And leaves his hold and crackles, groans, and dies

When badgers fight, then everyone's a foe
20 What does the word "hold" symbolize in the second and third stanzas?
The badger's desire to return home

The men's grip on the badger

The badger's courage and ferocity

The badger's need for affection
21 How does the poem portray the badger's death?
As unnecessary and cruel

As tragic and noble

As an ordinary part of country life

As victorious, a cause for celebration
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 poem sympathizes more with the men than the badger

The poet's tone is distant

The poem presents the hunt as routine
23 How does Clare convey the excitement of 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

He employs a speaker who delights in the hunt

All of the above
24 How does Clare portray violence in "The Badger"
As a battle between one beast and its single foe

As a general atmosphere

As an evil to be rooted out

As the exclusive fault of humans
25 What was the status of rural tradition in Clare's lifetime?
Largely a feature of the past due to industrialization

Still existing, but rapidly being displaced by industrialization

Being revived as people returned to the countryside from the cities

Stable and seemingly eternal

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