Badger (John Clare poem) Quizzes

Badger (John Clare poem) The Badger

1 John Clare was a part of which literary movement?

Gothic

Classical

Modernist

Romanticism
2 Where was John Clare born?

A small English village

An industrial city in the North

America, before moving back to England

London
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?

Rural traditions

Desire for the city

Country sport

The lives of animals
5 When was John Clare born?

1784

1845

1793

1823
6 What are heroic couplets?

Two-line stanzas that do not rhyme

A pair of rhyming lines written in iambic pentameter

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 infantile

As old-fashioned

As avant-garde
8 How did John Clare's early work respond to previous poets?

He was ignorant of their work

He borrowed extensively from them

He occasionally alluded to their work

He rejected their style
9 Which of the following literary devices does John Clare employ in "The Badger"?

Synecdoche

Simile

Metaphor

Enjambment
10 In what voice is "The Badger" written?

Second-person limited

First-person limited

Third-person omniscient

First-person omniscient
11 What is the setting of "The Badger"?

A crowded city street

A dog-fighting arena

A country village and the surrounding woods

A lonely house in the middle of nowhere
12 Who is NOT individually characterized in "The Badger"?

The poacher

The badger

The drunkard

The hunters
13 What tense is the badger written in?

Simple present

Habitual present

Simple past

Future
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 badger

The women

The poacher

The hunters
16 How does Clare present the practice of badger baiting?

As a barbaric and outdated practice

As a natural country tradition

As a necessary evil

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

Ferocity

Violence

Courage

Affection
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

Allusion

Simile
19 Which of the following does NOT personify the badger?

When badgers fight, then everyone's a foe

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
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 need for affection

The badger's desire to return home
21 How does the poem portray the badger's death?

As an ordinary part of country life

As tragic and noble

As victorious, a cause for celebration

As unnecessary and cruel
22 Which of the following is NOT a convincing argument for reading "The Badger" as condoning the practice it describes?

The poem presents the hunt as routine

The poem sympathizes more with the men than the badger

The poet's tone is distant

The poem celebrates the badger's death as noble
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 an evil to be rooted out

As the exclusive fault of humans

As a battle between one beast and its single foe

As a general atmosphere
25 What was the status of rural tradition in Clare's lifetime?

Largely a feature of the past due to industrialization

Being revived as people returned to the countryside from the cities

Still existing, but rapidly being displaced by industrialization

Stable and seemingly eternal

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