Badger (John Clare poem) Quizzes

Badger (John Clare poem) The Badger

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1 John Clare was a part of which literary movement?

Classical

Modernist

Gothic

Romanticism
2 Where was John Clare born?

A small English village

America, before moving back to England

London

An industrial city in the North
3 What was Clare's economic background?

Working class

Upper-middle class

Gentry

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

The lives of animals

Desire for the city

Rural traditions

Country sport
5 When was John Clare born?

1823

1784

1845

1793
6 What are heroic couplets?

A pair of rhyming lines describing a battle

A pair of rhyming lines written in iambic pentameter

Two-line stanzas that do not rhyme

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

As old-fashioned

As avant-garde

As conventional

As infantile
8 How did John Clare's early work respond to previous poets?

He rejected their style

He was ignorant of their work

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"?

Metaphor

Enjambment

Simile

Synecdoche
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 country village and the surrounding woods

A lonely house in the middle of nowhere

A dog-fighting arena

A crowded city street
12 Who is NOT individually characterized in "The Badger"?

The badger

The hunters

The drunkard

The poacher
13 What tense is the badger written in?

Simple past

Simple present

Habitual present

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 poacher

The badger

The women

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

As a chance to get rid of a pest

As a necessary evil

As a barbaric and outdated practice

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

Courage

Ferocity

Violence

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?

Parallelism

Allusion

Simile

Alliteration
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 men's grip on the badger

The badger's need for affection

The badger's desire to return home

The badger's courage and ferocity
21 How does the poem portray the badger's death?

As victorious, a cause for celebration

As tragic and noble

As an ordinary part of country life

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 poet's tone is distant

The poem presents the hunt as routine

The poem celebrates the badger's death as noble

The poem sympathizes more with the men than the badger
23 How does Clare convey the excitement of the hunt?

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

He employs a speaker who delights in the hunt

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

All of the above
24 How does Clare portray violence in "The Badger"

As the exclusive fault of humans

As a battle between one beast and its single foe

As an evil to be rooted out

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

Stable and seemingly eternal

Still existing, but rapidly being displaced by industrialization

Being revived as people returned to the countryside from the cities

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