Badger (John Clare poem) Quizzes

Badger (John Clare poem) The Badger

1 John Clare was a part of which literary movement?

Gothic

Modernist

Classical

Romanticism
2 Where was John Clare born?

America, before moving back to England

A small English village

An industrial city in the North

London
3 What was Clare's economic background?

Lower-middle class

Working class

Gentry

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

Desire for the city

The lives of animals

Rural traditions

Country sport
5 When was John Clare born?

1793

1845

1823

1784
6 What are heroic couplets?

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

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

As infantile

As conventional

As old-fashioned

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

He borrowed extensively from them

He occasionally alluded to their work

He was ignorant of their work

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

Metaphor

Synecdoche

Simile

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 country village and the surrounding woods

A dog-fighting arena

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

The hunters

The badger

The poacher

The drunkard
13 What tense is the badger written in?

Future

Simple present

Simple past

Habitual present
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 poacher

The badger

The women

The hunters
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As a barbaric and outdated practice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?

Ferocity

Courage

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

Alliteration

Simile

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

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

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

The badger's need for affection

The badger's courage and ferocity

The men's grip on the badger

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 celebrates the badger's death as noble

The poem presents the hunt as routine

The poet's tone is distant

The poem sympathizes more with the men than the badger
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 the exclusive fault of humans

As an evil to be rooted out

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

Stable and seemingly eternal

Still existing, but rapidly being displaced by industrialization

Largely a feature of the past due to industrialization

Being revived as people returned to the countryside from the cities

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