Badger (John Clare poem) Quizzes

Badger (John Clare poem) The Badger

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

Romanticism

Gothic

Modernist
2 Where was John Clare born?
An industrial city in the North

London

A small English village

America, before moving back to England
3 What was Clare's economic background?
Lower-middle class

Gentry

Working class

Upper-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?
1845

1793

1784

1823
6 What are heroic couplets?
A pair of rhyming lines describing a battle

Lines of poetry in an alternating rhyme scheme, abab

A pair of rhyming lines written in iambic pentameter

Two-line stanzas that do not rhyme
7 How were heroic couplets perceived in the nineteenth century?
As old-fashioned

As infantile

As avant-garde

As conventional
8 How did John Clare's early work respond to previous poets?
He borrowed extensively from them

He rejected their style

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"?
Simile

Metaphor

Synecdoche

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

First-person omniscient

Second-person limited

Third-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 badger

The poacher

The drunkard

The hunters
13 What tense is the badger written in?
Simple past

Habitual present

Simple present

Future
14 Which of the following is a convincing argument for Clare's sympathy towards the badger?
Clare centers the badger's experiences

Clare emphasizes negative human impact on the natural world

Clare implies that the hunting practices are deceitful

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

The women

The badger

The poacher
16 How does Clare present the practice of badger baiting?
As a natural country tradition

As a necessary evil

As a chance to get rid of a pest

As a barbaric and outdated practice
17 Which of the following is NOT an attribute of the badger that Clare celebrates?
Courage

Ferocity

Affection

Violence
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

Alliteration

Allusion

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

When badgers fight, then everyone's a foe

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 need for affection

The badger's courage and ferocity

The badger's desire to return home
21 How does the poem portray the badger's death?
As victorious, a cause for celebration

As an ordinary part of country life

As unnecessary and cruel

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 sympathizes more with the men than the badger

The poem presents the hunt as routine

The poem celebrates the badger's death as noble

The poet's tone is distant
23 How does Clare convey the excitement of the hunt?
He employs a speaker who delights in the hunt

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

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 a battle between one beast and its single foe

As an evil to be rooted out

As a general atmosphere

As the exclusive fault of humans
25 What was the status of rural tradition in Clare's lifetime?
Being revived as people returned to the countryside from the cities

Stable and seemingly eternal

Still existing, but rapidly being displaced by industrialization

Largely a feature of the past due to industrialization

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