Education for Leisure Quizzes

Education for Leisure Quiz

1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?

Squash

Fortnight

Kill

Glitter
2 Which of the following best describes the poem's speaker?

Nihilistic

Curious

Brilliant

Egomaniacal
3 What does the speaker metaphorically compare to "another language"?

A dead fly

A voice on the radio

An overcast day

Unemployment paperwork
4 What is the poem's rhyme scheme?

ABAB

ABA

ABCBC

It has no rhyme scheme
5 What does Shakespeare symbolize?

The speaker's separateness and exclusion

The speaker's brilliance

The dead

Violence in art and poetry
6 Which of the following is an example of dramatic irony?

The speaker believes he can avoid killing, but readers know he cannot

The speaker's sarcastic attitude to his victims

The poem's unexpectedly tender tone in its last lines

The speaker believes he is a genius, while readers know he isn't
7 The sentence "the budgie is panicking" is an example of what?

Foreshadowing

Hyperbole

Onomatopoeia

Enjambment
8 What is the poem's setting?

Late twentieth-century Britain

1970s America

Chicago in a futuristic era

Victorian London
9 What caused this poem to become the subject of controversy in 2008?

Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime

Its quotation in an Academy-Award winning film

Its removal from a school textbook

Its censoring on social media sites
10 Which best describes the speaker's motive for killing?

A desire for power

A desire for recognition

A curiosity about extreme acts

An interest in breaking taboos
11 What does the word "bog" mean in the work's context?

Soft, muddy ground

Toilet

Small town

Local pub
12 To what does the speaker compare his signature?

A bloodstain

A tattoo

An autograph

A fingerprint
13 What does the word "fortnight" mean?

Last night

Eight hours

The night after next

Two weeks
14 Which of the following occurs in the work's final line?

A new rhyme scheme

A reference to a real-life murder

A shift to the second person

A switch from fantasy to reality
15 Which social phenomenon does Duffy delve into in this poem?

The archetype of the serial killer

Factory farming and animal cruelty

The effect of industrial waste on mental functioning

The "loneliness epidemic" of the 2010s
16 Which of the following appears prominently in the line "a sort of grey boredom stirring in the streets"?

Simile

Understatement

Alliteration

Allusion
17 How does the speaker demonstrate cruelty throughout the poem?

By berating himself

By killing animals

By insulting the reader

He doesn't—he mistakenly believes himself to be cruel
18 The line "I see that it is good" is a reference to which of the following?

The Biblical creation story

Homer's Iliad

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
19 What or who is the speaker's first victim?

The cat

The radio host

His best friend

A fly
20 What is the poem's meter throughout?

It has no regular meter

Spondaic monometer

Trochaic hexameter

Iambic pentameter
21 What is the poem's point-of-view and tense?

First person singular, present tense

Third person singular, past tense

First person singular, past tense

First person plural, present tense
22 Which type of stanzas does the poem use?

Sestets

Tercets

Quatrains

Quintains
23 Which of the following words does the speaker use to describe his own breath?

Talent

Fire

Medicine

Clouds
24 Which of the following does NOT describe the poem's tone?

Bitter

Grandiose

Resentful

Measured
25 What does the word "budgie" mean?

A type of bird

A prank played by children

A sibling

A boring job

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